Disks are sealed, and a dessicant is present in each to keep humidity down. If you ever open a disk drive (e.g. for the magnets, or the mirror quality platters, or for fun) then you can see the dessicant sachet. cheers Al Boldi wrote: > Richard Scobie wrote: > >>Thought this paper may be of interest. A study done by Google on over >>100,000 drives they have/had in service. >> >>http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf > > > Interesting link. They seem to point out that smart not necessarily warns of > pending failure. This is probably worse than not having smart at all, as it > gives you the illusion of safety. > > If there is one thing to watch out for, it is "dew". > > I remember video machines sensing for dew, so do any drives sense for "dew"? > > > Thanks! > > -- > Al -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://samba.org/eyal/> attach .zip as .dat - 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
