Most of us are well aware of how much heat electronic equipment puts out, what can be less intuitive and harder to balance is the problem of heat from hard drives. Good organised machine operation, with clearly defined device usages, easy control of units across machines, sites or different customers is the key, therefore enter stage left a nice fat label to hold all the details of the unit. Except, this label acts as a heat blocker, reducing the surface area of the metallic or foil labelled drive as delivered, reducing the area across which the heat from the unit can dissipate, and even causing uneven heating, or heat wearing over time. The net result... For my project, a high mechanical drive mortality rate, which I simply could not explain, nor model or explain in the man lab. Only a trip to see how these machines were being employed sufficed to show the problem, label after label applied and reapplied, a drive on within a machine was untouchable it got so hot. My solution, put...
