[Leaplist] Old disks (was: Different netbooks ... CPU and GPU limitations)

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:32:43 pm Kevin Korb wrote:
> Ouch.  I almost killed a 3Ware card in a similar blunder.  I mounted a
> 3.5" hard drive a bit too far forward and didn't realize the HD's shell
> was touching the contacts of the disk access LED.  That LED was plugged
> into a 3Ware controller which was then a dead short.  The 3Ware pumped
> enough power into that LED wire to melt the entire ~2 feet of insulation
> and finally burn off the solder joints to the LED.  Surprisingly the 3Ware
> controller was not destroyed.

That is.  When I sneeze I tend to nuke 3Ware cards.  I toasted one with an 
insufficient PSU.  Another I killed someone moving it into a new system.  
Another seemed to die mysteriously.  I am thankful my 7500-4 and my 7810 
haven't died on me.  I would be very sad.

Someday I'll run 2xSATA whatever big drives in RAID 1 on software and just not 
care anymore...  My days of fetishing cool hardware have long passed.

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