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In article , Richard wrote:
I'm pretty sure my HD had a natural fault. But I do wonder about excessive
heating. I might just arrange for better cooling, one never knows if that
might have been a factor. But, my Fugitsu was bolted into the exact same
place.

That Fujitsu was most likely a 5400-rpm drive. 7200-rpm drives (your WD is
an 800BB or 800JB, right?) throw off more heat and need more attention paid
to cooling. 10k-rpm and 15k-rpm drives need even more care in this regard.

Lately, I've used Antec cases that allow an 80-mm fan to be installed in
front of the drives. They get cool air blown over them sucked in through
the front of the case. In one system, I had three drives (a WD and two
IBMs, all 7200-rpm) installed with a fan in front of them and haven't had
any problems with them in the past couple of years.

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