Tony Alfrey wrote:
Miguel Medalha wrote:
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.
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Hi kids! For the physics of the problem, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius_plot
"From the Google data, calculate the activation energy for temperature-induced hard drive failure"
Interesting idea. Do you have a link to some evidence that disk failures are governed by an Arrhenius relation? Grain boundaries are physical phenomena rather than chemical. I thought the current evidence pointed to them behaving like a glass. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org