On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:15:08PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > for harddisks, low temperature is the secret of > long life (and stable env. conditions, of course)
There's a reasonably interesting recent paper from Google labs which is making the rounds http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf You might find some of the results surprising. > hddtemp is a nice tool to figure the disk temp > for most newer drives, and as a rule of the thumb, > everything below 40°C is considered fine and all > above 50°C is considered deadly ... Thanks for the pointer, that's a nice addition to smartmontools and mdadm email notification. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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