Re: [Soekris] Hard drives and temperature (was Re: Hard Drive Recommendations

2008-02-04 Thread Chris Babcock
Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > All this is true, for the temperature ranges they studied. > >> So, temperature is not a source of disk failures. > > WRONG! For the disks that were mounted in google's data center, there > was no clear correlation between

Re: [Soekris] Hard drives and temperature (was Re: Hard Drive Recommendations

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Blackman
On 4 Feb 2008, at 10:35, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > 0n Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:32:55PM -0800, Ralph Becker-Szendy > wrote: > >> If you are interested in this topic: FAST (the file system and >> storage >> conference, where the Google paper was presented) is coming up in San >> Jose at the e

Re: [Soekris] Hard drives and temperature (was Re: Hard Drive Recommendations

2008-02-04 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:32:55PM -0800, Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: >If you are interested in this topic: FAST (the file system and storage >conference, where the Google paper was presented) is coming up in San >Jose at the end of February. I'll be there. The program shows that

[Soekris] Hard drives and temperature (was Re: Hard Drive Recommendations

2008-02-04 Thread Ralph Becker-Szendy
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Igor Sobrado wrote: >> I have had 3 e7k100's fail with read errors in the same general >> area of the disk. > > How odd! The only way to get symptoms like the one you describe > is getting the surface temperature of the disk platters higher > than the Curie point. It should n