[G5] Drives????

[Steve Goldstein]

For what it is worth:

I have two 120 GB ATA/IDE HDs in my G4 
Quicksilver.  One is a Seagate Barracuda, and it 
is running at 118.4ºF at the moment, according to 
a freeware Utility called "Temperature Monitor." 
The boot drive is a 120 GB Samsung, and it is 
running at 102.2ºF at the moment, though 
typically it runs below 100ºF  (sustained disk 
activity makes them run hotter).  The Samsung 
boot drive is actually UNDER the Seagate, so the 
Seagate gets more of the benefit of cooling from 
the fan which is just above and perpendicular to 
it.  Well . . . the Samsung just dropped down to 
98.6ºF , and the Seagate to 116.6ºF.

I joined this list because I had just bought my 
wife an iMac G5, and I wanted to keep up with G5 
and iMac issues.  I have not installed 
Temperature Monitor in the iMac yet, but I noted 
that it came with a 160 GB SATA Western Digital 
drive.  I keep an 80 GB Samsung in an external 
Firewire enclosure connected to the iMac, and I 
have ChronoSync set up to back up all her user 
folders that change (e.g. mail, pictures, music) 
early each morning to the external drive (which 
is also bootable with the latest system stuff on 
it).

I used to like Maxtors, until I fried three in a 
row on one of our Cubes many years ago. 
Similarly, an IBM Deathstar fried itself. So, for 
a while, I would use only the Seagate Barracudas. 
That is until the Samsungs came out.  Now, those 
are all that I order (from newegg.com, by the 
way).

--Steve (Mac user since 1988)

P.S., the Seagate is now back up to 118.4ºF, and 
the Samsung is at 102.2ºF.  No action that I know 
of (unless Spotlight indexing) on the Seagate, so 
maybe the Samsung underneath it is heating it up 
a bit.