On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's been decades since I did hardware engineering, but electronics > components come rated/tested for particular temperature ranges. 0-70 is one > of the standard industrial ranges. I would not be terribly surprised to find > out that somebody just said that all of the components are rated 0-70, so > we'll rate our SSD at 0-70 without actually worrying about how it's mounted, > what sort of air flow, whether that's the temperature of the room, or of the > components. If your office hits 70C, then whether your SSD is still working > would probably be the least of your worries. I also suspect that with power > dissipation etc. it would be happy quite a bit below 0C, happier than you > would be if your office were below 0C. Most (probably all) SSDs and HDDs can report their own temperature. My bottom-of-the-line Kingston 64 GB SSD is currently reporting a temperature of 29 C inside my desktop case (Core i7-930, ATI 5770, 2xHDD, SSD). It's the coolest reported temperature of all the devices in the system.The ambient room temperature is about 20 C. If the temperature is anywhere near the maximum operating temperature (probably unlikely), it would be good to check this reported value. I'm using HWMonitor: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
