[aclug-L] Re: FYI: Case Mods

[David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Being a former KOCH employee I think that a better test for your drives is
to give them to the management at KOCH and see how much food can be piled on
and how many times they can knock them off their desks..
I think that I would trust the Orangutans with my finest china after seeing
what I have seen happen in the offices... some of those guys need cooling
fans attached to their heads. [back on topic of cooling things down.]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilner, Alden" <awilner@xxxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: FYI: Case Mods


> Ah, the usual.
>
> We have a special test lab out at the SCZ, you might have seen it.
>
> It's called the KOCH lab. We toss a case of drives in with the Orangutans,
> let them play around with them for a couple hours, then retrieve them and
> see how many of them still spin up.
>
> So far the drop-out rate's pretty high. :-(
>
> (How many list readers are outside the Wichita are d'you s'pose? They must
> all be getting pretty confused about now).
>
> - Alden
>
> P.S. Am I far enough off topic yet?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Clint Brubakken [mailto:cabrubak@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:33 PM
> > To: discussion@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [aclug-L] Re: FYI: Case Mods
> >
> >
> >
> > What sort of testing are you doing on your drives at LSI :) ?
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:15, Wilner, Alden wrote:
> > > Wait, Bruce!
> > >
> > > See, you've made the fallacy of assuming the PC would
> > continue to operate at
> > > temperatures near absolute zero. But it wouldn't. The disk
> > drive's spindle
> > > would freeze up somewhere, the plastic in the keyboard
> > would become so
> > > brittle it would break upon use (not to mention your
> > fingers would freese to
> > > it, unless you wore big heavy mittens that would make it
> > impossible to
> > > strike a single key).
> > >
> > > We need to establish a brand-new "PC operating environment"
> > temperature
> > > scale, where the
> > > temperature at which, e.g. the disk spindle freezes up is
> > zero, and the
> > > temperature where, say,
> > > the silicon matrix in the CPU begins to break down is 100.
> > Then we could
> > > speak of "lowering
> > > the temperature by X percent of the operating range."
> > >
> > > I'm really surprised at your flawed analysis, Bruce. You're
> > usually so good
> > > at details. :-)
> > >
> > > - Alden.
> > >
> > > "Silicon Matrix breaks down." Gee, that sounded almost reasonable.
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: bruce [mailto:bbales@xxxxxxx]
> > > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:00 PM
> > > > To: discussion@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: [aclug-L] Re: FYI: Case Mods
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Friday 06 September 2002 07:06 am, you wrote:
> > > > > Before .... it was running at 50'C
> > > > > After ... is still running at a low temperature of only 39'C.
> > > > > But this dropped the CPU temperature by 25% ....
> > > >
> > > > You dropped the temperature by 28% in Celsius, but that is only
> > > > a 19% drop in Fahrenheit and only 3.5% absolute, which is the
> > > > only temperature scale that makes any sense in comparing
> > > > temperatures.  Both fahrenheit and Cencius are based on an
> > > > arbitrary placement of zero.  ; ^ )
> > > >
> > > > Just for fun,
> > > > bruce
> > > >
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