Hard drive failures

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(2012-11-26 01:05)Elmo Wrote:  37°-45° Has the lowest failure rate (~1%)
30° is 2%
25° is 3%
20° is about 7%, but they had fewer drives that cool, so the distribution is a bit bigger.

That is true, but the conclusion at the end also said.

Quote:We can conclude that at moderate temperature ranges it is likely that there are other effects which affect failure rates much more strongly than temperatures do.

The heavy AFR increase between 25°C to 18°C from ~3 to ~9,5 seems a bit suspect to me. I also doubt that this data is any use to home users as we tend to use our harddrives rather differently.

Got a link to those other studies, i couldn't find any where they included temperature changes or high power cycles.