On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:51 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > 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 didn't say to run them hot, just design temp. Overheating is bad, just like you mentioned. > 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 Yes it does, and my point wasn't to say that it doesn't, just to say that for the mechanical portion of electromechanical devices, excessive cool can be bad as well. -- Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> http://people.redhat.com/dledford - 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
