On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Scobie wrote:
> http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/technolo/drivetemp/drivetemp.htm
>
> shows some of the factors you mention and for what it's worth Hitachi's
> recommended operating range is 5 - 55 C for their 15K SCSI.
those specs is talking mostly about the "SMART" monitoring systems
the specs of a drive ... say ..
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/10k300/10k300.htm
but, not many will tell you/us how temp affects their mtbf
and warranty ...
- even if the disk is covered under warranty repair,
are you willing to leave that disk missing for a few
days, weeks while the drive is in warranty repair
sample effects of temp vs reliabilty ( degradation still applies to hard
disks )
http://www.Linux-1U.net/CPU/
it's easy to see the effects of temp vs reliability, by
noting the number of disks problems one has over the past 5-10 years
out of hundreds, thousands of disks, remembering too, that disk
manufacturers are in the business of selling new disks
c ya
alvin
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