On Wednesday June 17 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote:
It's only a good practice if it's based in empirical fact, not merely intuition.
It is an empirical fact that disks *do fail* because they are too hot. Mostly, the electronics fails, some integrated circuit gets burned.
Sure, everything fails at some temperature. The question is what is the actual temperature at which hard drives exhibit elevated failures.
Please don't isolate one of my statements from the whole of my post. The central point was:
"Statistics can be misleading. The fact that most drives didn't fail because they were too hot does not put aside the fact that many of them failed because they were too hot."
That, too, is excessively dependent on semantics. If you believe that "most don't" is consistent with "many do," fine. It strikes me as dubious.
We could discuss this forever. *In practice* I am sure you understood what I meant.
I think I do understand you, and I think you're wrong. Hence my reply. Just 'cause you think something is good practice 'cause of some general rule you accept doesn't mean it's true. Only empirical evidence establishes truth. If you want to throw out Google's study because it's at odds with your beliefs, that is your right, but it is not truth. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org