Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha@xxxxxxx>]

> Actually HD temp has proven to be of little consequence to harddrive 
> lifespan.  Google conducted a test a couple years back and found next 
> to no correlation to HD temp and drive failure.  Google did this over 
> 5 years by recording every failure they had and took many variables 
> into account to come up with probably one of the most comprehensive 
> real world hd reliability tests.

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.

So, it is a good practice to keep the disks at a relatively low temperature.

Good practices should be followed regardless of a particular outcome.

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