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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Rob Beard wrote:
Quoting Dave Morgan <morgadave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:most of the disk failures in our office happened overnight, during the winter(I used to run the a/c at 19 degrees). I have since turned the temp up to 23 and no disk problems since - but 5 motherboard failures on my IBM workstations due to blown electrolyics around the CPU (all went in an 18 month period at between 3.5 and 5 years old)! DaveThat's interesting about the drive failures, I'd have thought they would have a lower minimum working temperature than that (okay not say -40 degrees, but I'd have thought it would be higher).
There is a recently published Google study of their disk failure modes, and they found that running them hot was better for them in the long-run...
I know that one data robot storage company do this too with a speed/temperature controlled fan..
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