04-16-2008, 08:11 PM
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 Re: Recommended hard drive temperature
On 16 Apr 2008 12:20:06 GMT, Arno Wagner put finger
to keyboard and composed:
>Bottom line, the Google study shows that if you can get the drives
>consitently down to below 40C, temperature does not matter a lot.
>So the recomendation would be to have your drives (under load,
>on a hot day) below 40C at all times. Note that this also applies
>to external enclosures.
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>Arno
AFAICS, the Google study conclusively shows that failure rates also
increase when temperatures drop below 35C. In fact lower temps appear
to be more dangerous than slightly higher temps, except when the drive
is getting old, in which case higher temps start to become
significant.
- Franc Zabkar
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