On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Doug Ledford wrote: > Anyway, it might or might not hurt the drives to run them well below > their designed operating temperature, I don't have schematics and > materials lists in front of me to tell for sure. ez enough to do ... its called "specs" on the various manufacturers websites ... similarly for the operating temp of the ICs on the disk controllers .. you're welcome to run your disks hot ... i prefer to run it cool to the finger touch test as the server room to be 65F and its a known "fact" for 40+ years ... "heat kills" electromechanical items, car engines is a different animal for different reasons c ya alvin - feel free to second guess my reasons :-) ... there's no specs on that > But second guessing > mechanical engineers that likely have compensated for thermal issues at > a given, specific common operating temperature is usually risky. Most > people think "Heat kills" and therefore like to keep things as cool as > possible. For mechanical devices anyway, it's not so much that heat > kills, as it is operating outside of the designed temperature range, > either above or below, that reduces overall life expectancy. Keep your > drives from overheating, but don't try to freeze them would be my > advice. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
