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To play devil's advocate, this isn't out of the question. 1) Macs do tend to run hotter than PCs, and this could decrease HDD lifespan. 2) We've seen in the p
by Niten 15y ago
To play devil's advocate, this isn't out of the question.
1) Macs do tend to run hotter than PCs, and this could decrease HDD lifespan.
2) We've seen in the past that OS-specific power management settings can be detrimental to hard drives, as with this famous Linux bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/104535 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/104535 Although I doubt it's actually the case, it's possible in principle for drives to wear differently under OS X than under Windows.
- gwern 15y ago> 1) Macs do tend to run hotter than PCs, and this could decrease HDD lifespan. Google found that temperature didn't much matter according to their published research: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf > In the lower and middle temperature ranges, higher temperatures are not associated with higher failure rates. This is a fairly surprising result, which could indicate that data center or server designers have more freedom than previously thought when setting operating temperatures for equipment that contains disk drives. Non-PDF summary/discussion: http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/ http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-exper...