On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Scobie wrote: > http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/technolo/drivetemp/drivetemp.htm > > shows some of the factors you mention and for what it's worth Hitachi's > recommended operating range is 5 - 55 C for their 15K SCSI. those specs is talking mostly about the "SMART" monitoring systems the specs of a drive ... say .. http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/10k300/10k300.htm but, not many will tell you/us how temp affects their mtbf and warranty ... - even if the disk is covered under warranty repair, are you willing to leave that disk missing for a few days, weeks while the drive is in warranty repair sample effects of temp vs reliabilty ( degradation still applies to hard disks ) http://www.Linux-1U.net/CPU/ it's easy to see the effects of temp vs reliability, by noting the number of disks problems one has over the past 5-10 years out of hundreds, thousands of disks, remembering too, that disk manufacturers are in the business of selling new disks c ya alvin - 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
