[mythtv-users] hdd cooling

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Feb 17 05:17:34 UTC 2009


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Admittedly, I know nothing of cooling/ventilation in computers nor of
> HDD's, but since the Google labs study (
> http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf ) seemed to suggest
> that temperature did not play a role in drive failure, could this be
> doing more harm than good?

They did find that temperatures above 40C increased failure rates for 
drives over 3 years old, so I'd argue 48C might be a bit high.  (See 
page 6 of the report for a graph showing this.)


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