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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:38:34 +0000, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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)! >> >> Dave > >That'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). > >Sounds like IBM have been buying capacitors from the same supplier as Dell :-) > >Rob The Caps were the high quality black ones, but the machines had consecutive serial numbers ... The disks were 30Gb SCSI. Note most of the failures were not terminal, we would come in in the morning to find the machine locked up, and it would work fine after rebooting. Possibly the disks were getting so cold that something was binding inside as the metal shrunk. Dave -- http://www.morgad.co.uk/index.html DP: http://www.pgdp.net NTP: http://www.pool.ntp.org L&B: http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html