[Pc_Support] 320GB WD3200JD SATA drive for $107 shipped ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> I have a couple of Seagate 300GBs with 5 year warranty. 

Seagate has converted pretty much their entire "commodity"
line to the new process that cuts vibration to about 1/3rd,
and raises the ambient temp tolerance to 60C.

> It's probably not for 25x7x365 operation,

Nope.  Seagate designates those as their new "NL" (Near-Line)
series -- e.g., the NL35:  
  http://www.seagate.com/products/enterprise/nl35.html  

They roll off the same line as the other commodity disks, but
they are the units that test to the highest tolerances.

> but neither was my Maxtor 120GB that failed I and was 
> sent a warranty replacement just the same.  (My four 1+
> year old 120GB WDs JDs haven't failed yet, so far.)

Depends on the model.

AFAICT, Hitachi has been using the new process that pretty
much matches Seagate on all 80GB platter drives and newer,
possibly the 60GB platters as well.  I don't know if that
120GB is a 60GB x 4-head (2-platter) drive, or a 80GB x
3-head (1.5-platter) drive.

I'm using my WD3200DJ (80GB x 4 platter, 8-head) WD drives in
~12x6 operation as I take my cube to work and back home at
night.  The ambient around the HD _never_ exceeds 30C
according to the thermaresistor in between the (2) WD3200JD
(probably the best place for the highest amount of heat) that
feeds directly into the front temp gage (did I mention I love
these Chenming 118 cases?  ;-).

I know when I game really hard, the case's CPU thermaresistor
will spike up to 35C, and the LM sensors will show up to 45C,
and the GPU will read as high as 55C.  But those hard drives
_never_ go higher than 30C ambient -- even in continuous,
full seek.  Damn I love this Chenming 118, the airflow goes
right over those HDs.


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