What IS reasonable disk drive temperature?

taso ahg4 at aanet.com.au
Sun Jun 12 08:13:31 UTC 2005


Ben Steeves wrote:
> On 6/12/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>Hard drives are refrigerators, and run cooler than ambient?  Sure about that?
> 
> 
> Yes, I am.  As I said, you should put them close to an exhaust fan to
> pull warm air off them.  The temperature sensors at the hard drive

The HD temperature CANNOT be lower than ambient unless there is some type
of refrigeration happening. Therefore, your drives are either refrigerated
or your measurements are suspect.




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