Originally Posted by n1ckbarker

I hope you find this piece of advice helpful.

"heat is hardwares enemy" no matter what it is, cpu, gfx card, memory. All these items will fail prematurely if not cooled effectively. So hard disks are not exempt from this theory. Infact hard drives are more suseptible to heat damage as they have both circuit boards, and moving parts. Ive always stuck to my theory, and as a result have various makes/models of hard disk, never fail. Right now im touching wood, as you know what murphy's law is all about. Fans are relativly cheap, and if cool air is passing over a drive, its amazing how much heat is removed. I have Samsung/Maxtor drives on 24x7 with 3 fans blowing air, they are cold to the touch.

I hate the stupid CRAZY FROG...