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Posted by Spex on 03/17/07 16:59
Tadeusz Krzeminski wrote:
> On 17-03-07 13:00, in article 3mlnv2t3aoi04vir9jhgt8u288kbh906tu@4ax.com,
> "ijones@TOGLIinterfree.it" <ijones@TOGLIinterfree.it> wrote:
>
>> Thanks alot for your advice. But I don't understand your writings.
>> If I don't make video editing for one or two mounths but I use my PC
>> for internet surfing only, why would have to mont the drivers inside
>> the PC? I think the heat will damage them (a little bit) and however
>> even if I will not use them for two mounths, they will works a little
>> bit.
>
> According to the _IMHO reliable - Google hard disk test (from Neowin):
>
> 'The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure
> mdisk_faiay be exaggerated: "Our data indicate a much weaker correlation
> between utilisation levels and failures than previous work has suggested. We
> expected to notice a very strong and consistent correlation between high
> utilisation and higher failure rates. However our results appear to paint a
> more complex picture. First, only very young and very old age groups appear
> to show the expected behaviour," the authors noted.
>
> There is a widely held belief that heavily used hard disks are more likely
> to fail than those used intermittently. It has also been thought that hard
> drives preferred cool temperatures to hotter environments. The engineers
> found, however, that hard drives less than three years old and used a lot
> are less likely to fail than similarly aged hard drives that are used
> infrequently. The authors of the report speculated that drives which failed
> early on in their lifetime had been removed from the overall sample leaving
> only the older, more robust units. The report also noted that there was a
> clear trend showing "that lower temperatures are associated with higher
> failure rates. Only at very high temperatures is there a slight reversal of
> this trend." But hard drives which are at least three years old were more
> likely to suffer a failure when used in warmer environments.'
>
> More info can be found here:
>
> http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
>
I saw that report a while ago and found it very interesting. It turned
my own theory on hard drive failure on its head!
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