04-16-2008, 10:10 PM
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 Re: Recommended hard drive temperature
Previously Franc Zabkar wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
Don't read too much into it. AFAIR they did not separate by
manufacturer, model and manufactuuring date. It is quite possible that
the drives running at lower temperatures were actually from a batch
that had less life expectancy from the start and stay at lower
temperatures because of different cooling characteristics, i.e. there
may well be a systematic error in the measurements.
Arno
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