From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: RAID Class Drives` Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:15:00 +0000 Message-ID: <4BA33284.7000304@anonymous.org.uk> References: <7db987b31003170648j19e3346bi1050e703ef8c811c@mail.gmail.com> <4BA258AD.5020605@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BA258AD.5020605@gmx.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Joachim Otahal Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 18/03/2010 16:45, Joachim Otahal wrote: > [...] You should take care of the temperature of the drives, > 30=B0C to 35=B0C is preferred, above 35=B0C the lifespan goes down, o= ver 40=B0C=20 > rapidly down. Do you have a reference for this? Most drives' operating temperature=20 range is specified up to 55=B0C, sometimes higher for enterprise drives= ,=20 without any indication (apart from common sense perhaps) that running=20 them this hot reduces lifespan. Cheers, John. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html