>On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, David Greenman wrote:
>
>>    I've never seen a Quantum Atlas fail (out of a couple of dozen), but on
>> the other hand, nearly every Quantum Grand Prix I've seen has failed within
>> six months.
>
>Cooling is often the key. I've had only one Atlas fail, and I expect
>that was because the person who assembled the case they were in
>hooked up the 12V fans to the 5V power supply.

   It's true that this is important, but heat wasn't a factor in the drive
failures that I've had - all of the drives had excellent cooling in the
Kingston Data Silo box that they were in, never getting more than just
slightly warm to the touch.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project