Re: [Vserver] Re: keeping a mirror machine synched

From: Eugen Leitl <eugen_at_leitl.org>
Date: Wed 28 Feb 2007 - 15:59:00 GMT
Message-ID: <20070228155900.GL3288@leitl.org>

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:15:08PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:

> for harddisks, low temperature is the secret of
> long life (and stable env. conditions, of course)

There's a reasonably interesting recent paper
from Google labs which is making the rounds
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

You might find some of the results surprising.
 
> hddtemp is a nice tool to figure the disk temp
> for most newer drives, and as a rule of the thumb,
> everything below 40°C is considered fine and all
> above 50°C is considered deadly ...

Thanks for the pointer, that's a nice addition to
smartmontools and mdadm email notification.

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