Is the fan in a FireWire hard drive case really necessary? What will happen if I rip out the fan and leave the hard drive on 24/7 (Carracho server ) for a year? It's really loud at night!
The fan is for the power source. You can get fanless firewire cases that have external power bricks like owc firewire cases (with or without drives) for instance @ <a href="http://www.macsales.com"; target="_blank">www.macsales.com</a>.
I'm actually not quite sure why anyone would buy a firewire case from anywhere else considering benchmarks consistently show they have higher transfer rates than any others.
I had a western digital firewire case without a fan a few years ago. They are good for slow drives (5200 RPM or smaller) I left it on all night and I woke up to find the drive scorching hot with melted parts/plastic and a head crash. All the data was unrecoverable. I only have drives with fans now. (In fact the one I just bought last week has 3) :cool:
Ebby your experience sounds like a case of terrible luck! But I'm not ignoring you, I wanted to hear from people like yourself. It seems as though only 1 person has had bad experiences with fanless drives. I'm going to give a fanless case a try. Anyone have any recommendations?
I bought one of the Maxtor Firewire drives about two years ago. Aside from being PC formatted out of the box, it has worked fine for me...and it's fan-less.
I bought one of the Maxtor Firewire drives about two years ago. Aside from being PC formatted out of the box, it has worked fine for me...and it's fan-less.
Well, maby it was a bad apple. I spent 14 hours re-editing the video project that was lost. Not fun. But maby it was a pooched drive. Anyhoo, maby they fixed the drives to allow more air in the cases now. I still won't go back to fanless drives, but that's me.
) for a year? It's really loud at night!
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I'm actually not quite sure why anyone would buy a firewire case from anywhere else considering benchmarks consistently show they have higher transfer rates than any others.