Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Backups
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat Jun 2 11:57:29 2007
References: <C27EED27.1F655%heninger@adobe.com> <6E9F35A9-FB4C-45FA-961B-6D028D889569@gmail.com> <5F15E3700C9C4F8F5A78F915@hindolveston.reid.org><B723B56D-94F5-4E65-917D-9240D44164A5@gmail.com> <FA1989B35E00DFA76B444A60@hindolveston.reid.org><006001c7a53e$f37672d0$6101a8c0@jimnichols> <F38D5B65F8BB464D2A10F726@hindolveston.reid.org>

Thanks, Brian.  I like your logic.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Backups


>
>> I use a WD external drive in its own enclosure, and I have never opened 
>> the enclosure. From a side vent, it appears that there is a cooling fan 
>> of some kind inside.  Do bare drives, connected by the Vantec gadgets, 
>> work ok without cooling?
>
> Think about the shelf in your refrigerator that holds butter.
>
> First you build a house to keep you away from the cold world, and you heat 
> the house.
> Then you buy a refrigerator to keep food away from the warm house, and you 
> cool the refrigerator.
> Then inside the refrigerator there is a place for butter that is warmed to 
> keep it away from the cold refrigerator.
>
> Heat is mostly what kills electronics, including hard drives. And butter 
> too, I suppose.
>
> If you put the hard drive in an enclosure and you leave it on all of the 
> time, it will last longer if the enclosure contains a fan.
> If the hard drive is not in an enclosure, then it's not going to get as 
> hot, but I wouldn't use the Vantec bare-drive connector for any hard drive 
> that I was going to leave turned on frequently.
>
> I leave an archival hard drive connected overnight while I'm copying to 
> it, and then I turn it on every couple of years to keep the spindle 
> lubrication from seizing up. It doesn't need to be cooled when it's not 
> turned on.
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger) ([Leica] Re: Backups)
Message from leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson) ([Leica] Re: Backups)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Re: Backups)
Message from leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson) ([Leica] Re: Backups)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Re: Backups)
Message from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Re: Backups)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Re: Backups)