Comment Use of Swappable Hard Drives and a few problems (Score 1) 144
I work for the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. We've been using swappable hard drives in one of our computer labs for about 8 months now. They were originally installed because a class needed to install and maintain windows as a project. With the swappable HD's, we could use the lab as normal and then switch to the student hard drives right before class. The swappable units appear to cause some problems though.
That lab has a much higher rate of hard drive failure, which may be caused by lack of cooling in the plastic cases.
Also, when machines are turned on or reset, they will occaisionally do nothing but spin the hard drive. No windows startup, no bios beep, nothing. Turning the power supply off and then back on again seems to fix the problem, but it still annoying (and most lab users don't know the fix for it).
Swappable hard drives are a good idea, but they may be one whose time has not yet come.
Mike
SOIS Tech Support Specialist
http://www.sois.uwm.edu
That lab has a much higher rate of hard drive failure, which may be caused by lack of cooling in the plastic cases.
Also, when machines are turned on or reset, they will occaisionally do nothing but spin the hard drive. No windows startup, no bios beep, nothing. Turning the power supply off and then back on again seems to fix the problem, but it still annoying (and most lab users don't know the fix for it).
Swappable hard drives are a good idea, but they may be one whose time has not yet come.
Mike
SOIS Tech Support Specialist
http://www.sois.uwm.edu
