2008/10/26 Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi David, > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Got my new WDC800 disk up and running, LVM (fantastic tool!). 2.6.26-rt now >> boots without problems. >> >> I have noted that during high disk access rates, the temperature of the WDC >> soars (from a 33c idle to up to 44c!). Such high temperatures are not >> desirable. > > > Quote from Wikipedia: > > "A common misconception is that a colder hard drive will last longer > than a hotter hard drive. The Google study seems to imply the reverse > -- "lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates". Hard > drives with S.M.A.R.T.-reported average temperatures below 27 °C had > failure rates worse than hard drives with the highest reported average > temperature of 50 °C, failure rates at least twice as high as the > optimum S.M.A.R.T.-reported temperature range of 36 °C to 47 °C." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive > > Manon. >
The thing that kills harddrives (and most other components) is heat cycles, not heat. Cooling, heating, cooling, heating is very stressful. Just staying hot is not. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
