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.
Not "of little consequence". People tend to quickly jump conclusions but in fact the data needs interpretation. Quoting from the Google study: "Overall our experiments can confirm previously reported temperature effects only for the high end of our temperature range and especially for older drives. In the lower and middle temperature ranges, higher temperatures are not associated with higher failure rates. This is a fairly surprising result, which could indicate that datacenter or server designers have more freedom than previously thought when setting operating temperatures for equipment that contains disk drives. We can conclude that at moderate temperature ranges it is likely that there are other effects which affect failure rates much more strongly than temperatures do." Please note: "In the lower and middle temperature ranges, higher temperatures are not associated with higher failure rates." " (...) our experiments can confirm previously reported temperature effects only for the high end of our temperature range" The accompanying graphics also show an increase of failures above 45 degrees Celsius. "We can conclude that at *moderate temperature ranges* [my emphasis] it is likely that there are other effects which affect failure rates much more strongly than temperatures do." So, the point here is that we still need to prevent our HDDs to climb to high temperatures and it is good practice to keep them at "moderate temperature ranges". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org