The PDF linked from this page has data from Google that their research shows temperature and activity levels correlate less to drive failures than generally thought. The data was gathered from more than 100,000 consumer-grade PATA and SATA drives over a timeframe of Dec '05 and Aug 2006. A worthy - if techy - read.
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
