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Article #72Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up
From: Centre Parting
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:50
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:50
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Paul wrote: > Franc Zabkar wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:24:53 +0100, "Centre Parting" >> <nokia.account@ntlworld.com> put finger to keyboard and composed: >> >>> The Google study presumably polled a lot of PC users about HDD >>> failures. >> >> The Google study concentrated on Google's own huge installed base of >> hard drives spanning several manufacturers, models, and generations. >> >> Nobody was polled. >> >> Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population: >> http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf >> >> - Franc Zabkar > > What struck me about their study, is the word "humidity" > doesn't appear anywhere in the report. And humidity is a > factor in disk reliability. Not heard that touted before. You sure you're not just confused about the air conditioning issue ? Reasoning that since big installations are kept in a/c'd rooms (dry atmosphere), non-a/c'd (relatively humid atmosphere) installations must be less reliable ? Big installations aren't air-conditioned because of humidity. They're a/c'd because that's the only way TO cool a room. Humidity is purely incidental. That's some pretty weird-ass reasoning you've got. > > Paul
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