[darkpuppet]

NOS2Go4Me,Dec 2 2005, 11:19 AM Wrote:That's some good heatsink action going right there.

50C ambient temperature... one of the reasons I never used a Shuttle.

You know what heat does to bearing packs in a car, right? Imagine that @ 7200 RPM for each hard drive concerned.

There's more than one reason server rooms are air conditioned, although it all goes back to the same root - heat.
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the temps drop up to 10C in the winter time... and 2 shuttle boxes running for about 5 years, I've only lost one HDD.. and that was onboard controller/power failure.

I won't deny that heat is your enemy, but you'd be surprised how much punishment hardware running within spec will take.

now, server farms.. they're cooled for a reason.. It's because they have a much higher machine-airspace ratio. If you've ever walked into a server farm where the airconditioning failed, you'd know what I mean... it's like opening a direct portal to equador.