>"Backblaze claims that drive temperature doesn't affect drive life. That is counter to the observations of many others, including drive manufacturers." Google

>"Backblaze claims that drive temperature doesn't affect drive life. That is counter to the observations of many others, including drive manufacturers." Google has a whitepaper[0] on a large deployed sample size of drives which disagree with the author's claims here. I agree that more data from backblaze would be nice, but their claims do seem to have more plausibility than the author suggests. (If he has methodology issues with the Google paper, that would be more interesting) [0]- http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... (pdf warning)