[mythtv-users] RAID using two drives per PATA channel ?

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:36:26PM -0700, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:21:33PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > the drive bay has built in cooling via 2 huge fans, so I'll limit
> > myself to 6 drives).
> 
> Don't trust the cooling fans.  When I built my RAID-5 system I bought a
> special 3-drive bay with a large filtered fan.  After installing the
> drives as per the directions, one of them started failing within a few
> days.  The top drive was getting soaked from below, and was
> uncomfortably hot to touch.  I pulled it from the bay and mounted it in
> an un-cooled internal bay and everything was fine.  From now on I'm
> going to buy single-drive pull-out bays with individual cooling.


Problem is that the individual bay fans are small and thus noisy for the
volume of air they move.

I bought this:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=CC-290&cm_ven=Froogle&cm_cat=Shopping&cm_ite=total

Best $10 you will spend.   It's not living room quiet, but it's lots quieter than
any tiny fan unit, and the 80cfm air flow is what you need for a cool
machine inside.