Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On Jun 18, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote: > >>> according to Google's findings there's no correlation between >>> drive temperature and drive mortality >>> http://storagemojo.com/?p=378 >> >> Indeed, I found this particularly interesting as it is contrary to >> the vast majority of speculative information relating to drive >> longevity in the past. > >The folks I know who do drive repairs tell me that the number one >cause of hard drive failure are poor power supplies, not heat.
I'd never heard that before but it's very plausible. Of course, heat is a major cause of power supply problems ;) (High temps are bad for electrolytic capacitors) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
