Re: [opensuse] A single 80mm exhaust fan can make an 18 deg. difference in drive temps

On 09/06/17 7:44 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,

For the avid tinkerer and opensuse devotẽ note that the loss of a single
exhaust fan can cause internal case temps to skyrocket and the addition of a
single exhaust fan where none existed before can drop internal temps by close
to 20 deg. C. An additional note is separating/staggering/spacing hard drives
in your hard drive carrier within the case, leaving an empty drive bay open
between each hard drive can have the same cooling effect. Both solutions are
near zero cost and help fight the worst enemy to the life of your
computer/server -- heat.
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Give it a try and see how your cooling measures up. 10 degrees can make a big
difference in drive life.

Actually HD temp has proven to be of little consequence to harddrive lifespan. Google conducted a test a couple years back and found next to no correlation to HD temp and drive failure. Google did this over 5 years by recording every failure they had and took many variables into account to come up with probably one of the most comprehensive real world hd reliability tests.

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Dean Hilkewich
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