Google changes the way you mod your cases!

[Day03]

I've just read this article about hard drive failure that Google has released. The surprising thing is that contrary to popular belief higher hard rive temperatures are better (obviously there is a limit to it). However for HDDs older than 3 years lower temps were better. This might make you think differently about modding your case. Here is the article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6376021.stm
If someone has a link to the original report released by Google then please post it here.

 

[Tetras]

Difficult to draw conclusions for the average user, comparison between temperature and failure rate without knowing the other factors involved (for the system/operating environment as a whole).

Original report:
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Does seem drives are fine with temps around 20 - 50 which is prolly the norm.