[Tfug] USB drives

[Chris Niswander]

Bexley Hall wrote:
>>> Cooling is ALWAYS important.  10C = 50% lifespan (as a rule
>>> of thumb)
>> Not as much as it used to be:
>>
>> http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
>>
>> See figures 4 and 5.  If you keep drives cold (below 25C/77F), they
>> fail at a much higher rate.
>>
>> Between 35-40C results in maximum drive life.
> 
> I don't think you can draw that conclusion from the data
> that they present!  Nor do I think *they* draw that conclusion.
  [much interesting logic omitted]

Oh, you *engineer*! :-)

Bexley Hall: still showing that thinking is allowed on the Internet. :-)