Hard drive failures

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(2012-11-23 23:32)Elmo Wrote:  contrary to popular belief, a study by Google (they use many millions of hard drives) showed that HDDs actually like it quite warm - between ~30-40 degrees IIRC.

Read that study aswell, but it only said that very low or very high temperatures had a negative effect on the durability. After all google uses these drives 24/7 which means over time there will be small temperature changes and as 30°C+ isn't killing them it could be the change of the temperature that might be a harming factor.

Your hardrive at home will have loads of temperature changes in it's lifetime, so i personally rather keep my drives at room temperature, to keep material expansion to a minimum. Hardly scientific and only my two cents.