Operating temperature - what does it actually mean?

Soldato
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When a manufacturer states an operating temperature, what does that actually mean?

Is it the ambient temperature that the device should work in or is it the temperature range that the actual device can stand?
 
That's quite hight, I assume people don't usually let it get past 70 odd.

The reason I am asking is that I am currently modding my fileserver and I am trying to get it run fanless so wondering what the max temperatures are before the components start dying.
 
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