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One aspect of this approach they don't mention is how it affects the MTBF of the equipment. Many components suffer increased failure rates when run at a consis
by antonyme 15y ago
One aspect of this approach they don't mention is how it affects the MTBF of the equipment. Many components suffer increased failure rates when run at a consistently higher temperature. While it may be relatively safe to run machines in a range higher than is comfortable for humans, I bet there's an upper limit past which components really start to fail in numbers.
- tikhonj 15y agoThe article mentions that "Studies by Intel and Microsoft showed that most servers do fine with higher temperatures and outside air, easing fears about higher hardware failure rates." So I think it isn't a big issue. Now, obviously there is going to be some upper limit, but it just hasn't been hit in this case.
- mvgoogler 15y agoWe've published a few papers about this that studied (among other things) the effect of temperature on DRAM and hard-drive failure rates. We watch our machines pretty closely. If you're a data geek, Google's a fun place to be. Disk Study: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf DRAM Study: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
- antonyme 15y agoVery interesting! Thanks for the links, I'll check out the papers.