topic Re: Hard Drive failures in PCs & Accessories

Hard Drive failures

clivadio — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:43:31 GMT

Hi all,

I've put in my Vaio (XL201) 2 additional hard drives (3 in total: the bay is full).

And it's been the second time that one of them burns. They're not crap - Samsung and Seagate.

I've installed a software that displays the temperature of the hard drives, and they're all above 50 deg C, almost all the time.

I'm starting to think that maybe this computer is heating too much to be equipped with 3 drives.

Has anybody experienced such thing?

Thanks a lot

Re: Hard Drive failures

Thalamus. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:32:44 GMT

Hi clivadio,

there could be a heat problem due to adding 2 additional HDD inside your XL201..

Maybe try removing the middle HD drive and see if that helps.?

Re: Hard Drive failures

clivadio — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:29:24 GMT

Hi and thanks for your answer.
Yes this is what I will do - I've purchased an external HD eSata box.
But it's weird since the PC has 3 bays, I thought it was designed to welcome 3 drives correctly.
Cristian

Re: Hard Drive failures

Thalamus. — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:41:50 GMT

You're welcome Cristian..

Re: Hard Drive failures

kee-lo_ — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:18:10 GMT

Is there no way to add another fan or a faster fan? In the RA104 the fans are like 799rpm