There's a typo in that link. http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/me

There's a typo in that link. http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... I'm more inclined to believe Google's results than anybody elses, the amount of data they have is staggering and the results they got are fairly clear cut. I personally don't bother cooling spinning disks, it just seems like a complete waste of time and effort based on that paper.