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I read the same thing a year ago and I came away actually upset at the tweaktown article. Off the top of my head, I remember some of the complaints being that t
by gareim 11y ago
I read the same thing a year ago and I came away actually upset at the tweaktown article. Off the top of my head, I remember some of the complaints being that the drives were subject to abnormal amounts of heat and that the drives were consumer-level drives.
I remember a study Google did on harddrive reliability and it seemed to show that heat had little to no effect on it. I also don't regard consumer-level as being a bad thing. As a consumer, I kind of want to know which drives are built for abuse better. All drives fail; which drives fail more and at what cost?
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- ngoede 11y agoThe tweaktown article did talk about temperature. I think you were right to feel they were being silly with that. Temperature MAY correlate with failure but Backblaze found it did not do so within the ranges they actually see in their environment. Something about which it appears they would have more than enough data to be able to compute.
- hga 11y agoGoogle's study some time ago found that temperature either didn't correlate with failures or, in the ranges they ran their machines, had an inverse correlation with failure. It would appear to be one problem disk manufacturers have largely surmounted.
- pbreit 11y agoThe Tweaktown article is a straight hit piece. I'm not really sure what the motivation would be. The writing is so sloppy and negative that it's hardly compelling.