...and it's headed south. In 12 years of working hardware support, I have only had one IDE drive fail. In the last 3 years, I've had 4 SATA drives fail. Get the serial number off the drive, call it in for an RMA with the manufacturer.
Unless you have a *serious* heat problem (more than 105C for many hours), heat won't trash a drive. I suppose it is a repitition of that old adage "Mean time between failure doesn't necesarily mean any time between failures.", but so far, my experience with SATA has caused me to buy more SCSI drives. I've got servers in high heat environments with several years' worth of uptime. If SATA can't do that, it doesn't belong anywhere you have something you don't want to lose. |
