In one of my computers with relatively low ventilation, the relatively old (only 4-5 years) harddrive is in perfect condition. However, in my newer computer, things weren't as perfect. I have a fan on one of the drives (rather loosely conneted, open to vibration), which recently began to malfunction.
However, I believe that the cause of this was overwork and stress on an old and rather weak drive. Have you recently put excessive stress (such as copying entire file systems) on the drive? In all, it seems that heat hasn't played a major factor in disrupting quality in my experiences.
I have been a comcast subscriber since before they changed over from comcast@home, over a year ago, with the same email address. Recently, I've begun to get return emails with MY address as the sender. Though numerous emails were sent, they came from only 2 original locations. I've sent emails to Comcast's abuse with no result, but luckily it doesn't appear to have been as wide spread as to render the address useless.
Actually, this is not true. The comcast system works with any operating system that runs a decent dhcp client. For example, under linux, running `dhcpcd ` provices all the authentication you need to connect to the service. Authentication is provided based on the MAC address of your modem, not based on any windows-proprietary method.
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In one of my computers with relatively low ventilation, the relatively old (only 4-5 years) harddrive is in perfect condition. However, in my newer computer, things weren't as perfect. I have a fan on one of the drives (rather loosely conneted, open to vibration), which recently began to malfunction.
However, I believe that the cause of this was overwork and stress on an old and rather weak drive. Have you recently put excessive stress (such as copying entire file systems) on the drive? In all, it seems that heat hasn't played a major factor in disrupting quality in my experiences.
I have been a comcast subscriber since before they changed over from comcast@home, over a year ago, with the same email address. Recently, I've begun to get return emails with MY address as the sender. Though numerous emails were sent, they came from only 2 original locations. I've sent emails to Comcast's abuse with no result, but luckily it doesn't appear to have been as wide spread as to render the address useless.
Actually, this is not true. The comcast system works with any operating system that runs a decent dhcp client. For example, under linux, running `dhcpcd ` provices all the authentication you need to connect to the service. Authentication is provided based on the MAC address of your modem, not based on any windows-proprietary method.