On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:59 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Actually, temperature has very little relationship with disk life, at > least when Google studied their consumer grade disk failure metrics. > > The details: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf > > Regards, > Daniel
Thanks for that link Daniel. An interesting paper. However, I don't know that I'd compare a server farm environment to home PCs. My gut feeling from the tens of hard drive failures I've worked on is that close-stacking drives is a bad thing. Maybe because through-ventilation in big home boxes is not as thorough as in rack box servers. Another bad thing is what happened to me a couple of days ago when the power supply variable speed fan went to low speed (not stopped) and I smelled the PC getting hot. I removed a little control circuit board from inside the unit and the fan now runs at full speed permanently. Fortunately nothing died (so far). Cheers, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
