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"Robert Morein" wrote:

In the same vein, has anybody had trouble with external fanless enclosures
overheating?
Is aluminum construction sufficient to cool?

I made my enclosure from plywood. The best part is it's NEC compliant.



"SimMike-" wrote in message
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Does your DVR have active cooling on the hard drive? The reason I ask is
many
TIVOs, etc, don't have a fan blowing directly on the hard drive. This is
why
they generally use lower heat 5400 rpm hard drives. Since I think high
heat is
one thing that really hurts hard drive reliability, putting a 7200 rpm
drive in
these tightly enclosed poorly ventilated DVRs is asking for trouble.

If I ever upgrade my TIVO to a bigger drive, I am going to try and rig a
little
fan to blow over the drive. I'll use a power splitter from the hard drive
power
connector to supply power.

"Keith Clark" wrote in message
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My Maxtor 250 GB drive with fluid bearings failed after only 3 or so
months, if even that. One day I booted the DVR and the "D:" partition
just wasn't formatted any more. Norton Disk Doctor found and fixed over
263,000 bad sectors but of course recordings just wouldn't play well
after that and re-formatting it took over 6 hours, after which it was
still performing badly so I replaced it with a WD 250 GB.

I've seen some bad customer reviews on Newegg but who knows about those.

Has anyone here come across anything indicating a widespread problem
with these Maxtor 250 GB drives?