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On Thu, 11 May 1995 [e-mail] wrote:

> In closing I have some very important advice for PAR newbies. I've
> had mine for over a year now, and I found something out the hard
> way. KEEP YOUR DRIVES COOL!!!!  I can't stess this strongly
> enough. High capacity drives generate tremendous amounts of heat.
> A hot drive will last about a month. NEVER NEVER NEVER run
> a PAR drive inside a stock 4000 case. Mine now sits in a tower case
> opposite the power supply intake with 3 inch air spaces above AND
> below, with vent slots in the front panel.

Dan must be using the Micropolis drives, all their >GB drives run fast
and very very hot. The 3GB I got for the Mac8100 had to be put in a PC
MiniTower, size and heat were a concern.

The new Conner 540MB & 1GB drives are dirt cheap and almost as fast as
the Micropolis. They have the added advantage of 3.5HH and they run very
very cool. I mean no heat at all. Until recently, I had the old
Seagate3600 and the Conner540 on the PAR, I sandwiched them together with
thin foam tape so I could fit them both in the 5.25 bay in my 2000. The
Seagate ran a bit hotter and glitched a little more often (it was the
first and flakiest of PAR approved drives) but the Conner had no problem
with 220-240 Blocks, Q23 on anims and as high as Q18 on video recording.

My machine stayed cool despite having an older, hotter Maxtor Sys: drive
right on top of the others and a heat producing Zeus on the other side of
that. I >do< have a second CPU type fan on the other side of the Zeus,
otherwise it (the Zeus) will die within a day.

D.
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