Ok well I had this hard drive for less than a year (western digital) and its already dying. I opened it up to put a new hard drive in...and there was not only (surface?) dust but also a big clump of it right on the hard drive (not good). However, this would explain why the hard drive would die so quickly.
Now my question is how to avoid this with my new hard drive, I dont really want to have to open this computer up to blow it out more than once a year. Its a DELL XPS 400, it has a fan and vent right above the hard drive so i dont really get how this happened so quickly, it wasnt THAT long ago since I cleaned this out last. Might even be under 6 months.
Im going to take the fan out hopefully and give it a good cleaning (hopefully its filthy or something) but it doesnt seem like its going to be very dusty. The green part (circuit boards) of the hard drive are facing up and mostly exposed...Im pretty sure from google Images that this is how its suppose to be. Now I had an interesting idea but Im not sure if its good or bad....and if I do it, it wont fit in it slot anymore so I dont think I can but, I found a like, har drive cover from an OLD OLD OLD 40gb hard drive and was wondering if maybe I should put that over it? Its like a rubbery thing that u can stretch over the hard drive and itll cover the circuit boards.
Bad part of this is, like I said, it wont slide into its slot though then, Im going to have to have it sitting on top of something without being secured, so Id have to be careful when moving the tower (very careful). it would just be sitting on top of the slot that its suppose to go in.
if the fan is clean, and I dont put the "hard drive dust cover" on, what can I do really anything? is it better that the computer TOWER (not hard drive) is out in the open? or should i switch to my enclosed desk. right now its out in the open on top of my rug, sitting next to my desk about half a foot from the wall. if i put it in the enclosed desk itll be i guess just more enclosed in the back...which wont really matter since tha hard drive is in the front of the tower anyway. but while im at it, are enclosed desks a bad idea? it wont be fully closed like a cabinet or anything but it does have sides on top left and right. its like this only without the doors http://1userverrack.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/computer-cabinet.jpg
thanks so much for any input, i really do appreciate it.
thank u!
Now my question is how to avoid this with my new hard drive, I dont really want to have to open this computer up to blow it out more than once a year. Its a DELL XPS 400, it has a fan and vent right above the hard drive so i dont really get how this happened so quickly, it wasnt THAT long ago since I cleaned this out last. Might even be under 6 months.
Im going to take the fan out hopefully and give it a good cleaning (hopefully its filthy or something) but it doesnt seem like its going to be very dusty. The green part (circuit boards) of the hard drive are facing up and mostly exposed...Im pretty sure from google Images that this is how its suppose to be. Now I had an interesting idea but Im not sure if its good or bad....and if I do it, it wont fit in it slot anymore so I dont think I can but, I found a like, har drive cover from an OLD OLD OLD 40gb hard drive and was wondering if maybe I should put that over it? Its like a rubbery thing that u can stretch over the hard drive and itll cover the circuit boards.
Bad part of this is, like I said, it wont slide into its slot though then, Im going to have to have it sitting on top of something without being secured, so Id have to be careful when moving the tower (very careful). it would just be sitting on top of the slot that its suppose to go in.
if the fan is clean, and I dont put the "hard drive dust cover" on, what can I do really anything? is it better that the computer TOWER (not hard drive) is out in the open? or should i switch to my enclosed desk. right now its out in the open on top of my rug, sitting next to my desk about half a foot from the wall. if i put it in the enclosed desk itll be i guess just more enclosed in the back...which wont really matter since tha hard drive is in the front of the tower anyway. but while im at it, are enclosed desks a bad idea? it wont be fully closed like a cabinet or anything but it does have sides on top left and right. its like this only without the doors http://1userverrack.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/computer-cabinet.jpg
thanks so much for any input, i really do appreciate it.
thank u!