On Wednesday 14 January 2009 00:08:10 [email protected] wrote: > Actually, temperature has very little relationship with disk life, at > > > least when Google studied their consumer grade disk failure metrics. > > > > The details: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf > > > > Regards, > > Daniel > > Thanks for that link Daniel. An interesting paper. However, I don't > know that I'd compare a server farm environment to home PCs. My gut > feeling from the tens of hard drive failures I've worked on is that > close-stacking drives is a bad thing. Maybe because through-ventilation > in big home boxes is not as thorough as in rack box servers. > > Another bad thing is what happened to me a couple of days ago when the > power supply variable speed fan went to low speed (not stopped) and I > smelled the PC getting hot. I removed a little control circuit board > from inside the unit and the fan now runs at full speed permanently. > Fortunately nothing died (so far).
Seagate published this http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf It says multiple drives in close mechanical proximity WILL fail ! Like This: Drive1 seeks to track That movement shakes Drive2 off track, so it corrects THAT movement shakes Drive1 off track so it corrects ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
