[ILUG] New SCSI disk gets very hot

[conor at discuskeeping.com]

Quoting Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>:

> I bought a very large (300GB) SCSI disk on eBay,
> and put it in my desktop,
> but it gets very hot.
> Is that par for the course with large SCSI disks?
> Do I need a special fan?
>
> The disk is a Hitachi Ultrastar (10,000rpm).
>
> Also, the disk has 80 pins, while the disk it is replacing had 68 pins.
> I'm using a 68-pin to 80-pin adaptor from Hong Kong.
> Is that likely to be adequate?
> (The disk seemed to be found OK by "fdisk /dev/sdb",
> but I didn't partition it because it was running so hot -
> I thought I'd better sort that out first.)
>
> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.

A lot of these drives can run hot, and thats really not good.
You should seriously consider adding a cooling carrier thingy. They  
use a 5.25 slot (cdrom bay) and will save you data long term.

Regards
Conor.