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Article #103Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up
From: PeeCee
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:06
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:06
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"Centre Parting" <nokia.account@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:73r4uoF10icg5U1@mid.individual.net... snip > Unless a drive has a decent volume of air moved across the PCB, it's > doomed to a short life. snip Google's research suggests otherwise: From http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf <quote> Contrary to previously reported results, we found very little correlation between failure rates and either elevated temperature or activity levels. </quote> http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/massive-google-hard-drive-survey-turns-up-very-interesting-thing/ notes: <quote> there is less correlation between drive temperature and failure rates than might have been expected, and drives that are cooled excessively actually fail more often than those running a little hot </quote> best Paul.
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