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(More customer reviews)This is a nicely made product with a solid feel to it. It's about twice as expensive ($40 for a complete drawer and caddy) as the Startech DRW110ATA 3.5" Removable Hard Drive Drawer, which is the drawer I began with, and have 6 copies of. The $20 StarTech is a lot less solidly built. One of the six drawers failed.
I have recently become sensitive to drive temperatures because over the past year or so I have lost 4 hard drives, not knowing why until the last drive died, when a diagnostics test indicated the drive died through overheating to a temperature of 68 degrees celsius. At that point I downloaded a freeware applet called HDD Thermometer, that shows compactly in the system tray the temperatures of all drives equipped with heat sensors. Through observing the reported temps on 3 different computers I have changed my beliefs concerning keeping drives cool, and, have found it keeps drives cooler to keep the computer case on and the drive drawer lids on. This finding is based on just 3 computers -- a Dell and two ASUS based clones -- and might not be entirely general.
Right now on my ASUS P4P800S clone, which has been running continuously for the past 12 hours, I am seeing respectable temps of 33 degrees celsius on both drives, with the drives enclosed in Kingwin KF-21 removable racks. One further wrinkle -- the room I'm in is 71 degrees Fahrenheit -- and I've found drive temperatures do vary according to room temperature (surprise surprise).
Sorry to make this review so long (350 words) but I think an understanding of heat dissipation is critical to hard drive survival for those of us who play at reconfiguring our machine hardware.
P.S. I seem to recall that complete drawers (rack plus drawer insert) were about $30 two years ago from Egghead... if this recollection is correct, the price rise to $42 is way higher than inflation.
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