This is pretty cool. The most interesting aspect of this paper is the effects of temperature. Our people love to keep our computer room at a temperature of 65-68°F. This paper indicates that hard drives fail far less frequently at 80°F. I'm assuming the temperature here is referring to the drive itself and not the ambient temperature, so will need to account for that too.
Might explain why we have so many hard drive failures the past few years.
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Date: 2007-02-18 02:57 pm (UTC)Might explain why we have so many hard drive failures the past few years.