On 16/10/2007, Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:16 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > The CPU temp does not matter too much, as most CPUs now protect themselves.
> > The main thing to worry about is the HD.
>
> Not according to a recent study by Google. Their research showed that
> temperature had very little to do with hard disk failure.
>
> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%
> 20/2007/02/20/googles-hard-disk-study-shows-temperature-is-not-as-important-as-once-thought/
>
That url link gives no details of what temperatures are involved.
Whether they ever had HDs running over their manufactures max setting,
or just a variety of temperatures, all within the manufacturer's
accepted range.
James
