VIAHardware's lowdown of IBM GXP hard disk 333 hours of use per month restriction

I agree with SNGX1275 when he saw that the Deskstars put off plenty of heat. That why I have a box fan blowing directly on the mobo and hard drives, to drive the heat away. How do you have your hard drives set up in the case SNGX1275???

I've heard you shouldn't put two drives on top of one another without really good cooling.

I haven't heard anything about the Seagate hard drives so they must be ok cooling wise, but don't take my word for it!

One last thing, no problem on the whole warranty thing, it put my mind to rest also

Ahh.. You just reminded me of something. The friend of mine complaining that the Seagates were very hot when he tried stacking 3 of them together.. Hehe.. My fault

Have you ran the Drive Fitness Test that IBM offers for their hard drives?

This test is supposed to stress your hard drive and report any potential errors or failures that might happen. IBM also offers plenty of features to go along with their hard drives that allow for temperature monitoring, very low level formatting, erase certain sectors, etc. The drive test and features are put on two separate floppy disks and run. They can be found here:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Maybe this can help some in determining if their drive is performing well and if the system temperatures are ok.