<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Bobby Gill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brownitus@gmail.com">brownitus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br></div>Just to note, I do recall an extensive Google study resulting in no noticeable difference in reliability across temperature bands, someone can correct me if I'm off on the details.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>That google study in interesting because a lot of the media did summarize it that way. But in reading the study myself I came to a different conclusion<br><br><ol><li>Keep in mind is the study was based on a corporate datacenter not users running an HTPC at home. This means temperature controlled datacenters & frequent hardware replacement. For instance, the summary refers to more frequent failures in "older" drives. the chart shows the trend increasing at 3 years. While that's probably old to them, it's not to me :)</li>
<li>The study does show that what google calls "high end" temps (>=40C) contribute to more frequent failures after 3 years. From the study "What stands out are the 3 and 4-year old drives, where the trend for higher failures with higher temperature is much more constant and also more pronounced". I'm ashamed to admit that my master backed drives were hitting 55-60 for awhile there, which is way off of their chart (stops at >45)<br>
</li></ol><br>Just my 2 cents. I encourage others to read the study (the temp part is only a few pages) and draw thier own conclusions<br>Always enjoy reading the latest on the hard drive topic as you can never how too much storage!<br>
<br><br>Dave<br><br>Here's the link to the study: <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Flabs.google.com%2Fpapers%2Fdisk_failures.pdf&ei=1NTHSqviD8yh8Ab9yIy8CA&usg=AFQjCNGQnQZT4n9wJDyYMmOnmVqfnx1udw&sig2=zRWuG-C3zp-4jhkvtGHKFw">http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Flabs.google.com%2Fpapers%2Fdisk_failures.pdf&ei=1NTHSqviD8yh8Ab9yIy8CA&usg=AFQjCNGQnQZT4n9wJDyYMmOnmVqfnx1udw&sig2=zRWuG-C3zp-4jhkvtGHKFw</a><br>
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