Tony Alfrey wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
Tony Alfrey wrote:
The Arrhenius relation is a nice fall-back when the failure rate looks logarithmic.
So no actual evidence then :-P
I'm not sure what "evidence" you would feel comfortable with. If I were to take the Google data and fit it to an Arrhenius plot and calculate an activation energy that was roughly consistent with what one might expect for one of the many possible temperature-related failures in a disk drive, would that be appropriate? This is, by the way, how one does science. If you'd like, I'll do the calc and submit the paper as a letter to Jour. of Phys. C. If the paper gets published, does that then make it "evidence"? If someone else publishes the paper, is that then better evidence than *my* paper? Do you reject the idea that an Arrhenius relationship is *not* appropriate? Do *you* have an alternate proposal? Do you, perhaps, not understand the qualitative analysis I presented above? <sigh>
So far what you've said is pure speculation. I'd happily accept normal scientific evidence, which is as you say, a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal. Or even a textbook. Since you say that you haven't yet fitted the data yourself, you clearly don't have any evidence of your own to support the statements you made so you would have to be relying on a pre-existing published paper. And only pre-existing papers have been through the peer-review process that helps to confirm their conclusions (though subsequent replication is even better, of course). FWIW, I didn't see any data in the Google paper itself that supported the relationship you suggest - perhaps you'd point it out if I missed it. Not that I saw anything that denied the relationship either. But I'm sure that other equations could be made to fit the few data points there and the flying spaghetti monster could perhaps tell us why if we asked nicely. So I'm firmly of the opinion that additional external evidence is required to support an unequivocal assertion like
Hi kids! For the physics of the problem, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius_plot
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