[CUBE] Still having problems with Cube Hard Drives

Riba riba at hi.hinet.hr
Tue May 13 08:33:52 PDT 2003


On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 17:30 Europe/Zagreb, Randy Spencer wrote:

> The original 20 Gig that came with the Cube works just fine all the 
> time,
> except it is always full.  I can leave it running tests for weeks 
> without a
> problem.  It is also not a heat problem as the Thermoindock claims the
> ambient temps are identical using all of the hard drives (20c to 40c).
> Could my power supply be too wimpy for the big drives?

I'd say that it easily could be a heat problem. At least my 80 GB WD 
had the same symptoms until I put the fan in. Don't rely on temp 
measuring software - they measure CPU temp (poorly). Touch your HD and 
you will see what I mean :)



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