Re: [Hampshire] Ecological computing choice?

Victor Churchill wrote:
> On 12/04/07, Bob Dunlop <bob.dunlop@???> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11 at 11:24, Gordon Scott wrote:
>> ...
>> > I'd been thinking of buying a small ITX system, preferable fan-free,
>> > for a reasonable minimal ecological footprint and minimal noise.
>>
>> Using a modern 2.5" laptop drive will also save power 4W vs a 3.5"
>> drives 11W typical figures.
>
> Straying towards OT here, but I'd have some concerns about reliability
> running one of these 24/7. Our work tried deploying a couple of mini
> ITX boxes with 2.5" drives and they both had to be recalled after
> throwing disk errors. Maybe we were just unlucky though.
>

My Epia 5000 based box was fine over the 18 months or so I ran it - it
did have a problem disk-wise, but that was a donated 3.5" 60G Maxtor and
not a laptop drive.

I have heard it said that 2.5" drives aren't designed for 24/7 use, but
can't back that up with a reference of solid evidence. Sort of makes
sense when you think about it.

Sean