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spobo on Sept 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are p...

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Google did some research on this with their datacenters. There is apparently no correlation between heat & diskfailures.

tjoff on Sept 8, 2012 [–]

Yes, but google ran all their drives within the specs of the drives (right?). So making sure that your drive is within the specs seems prudent.

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