On 29/04/2016 2:25 PM, Richard Pope wrote:
> Harold,
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>      40 C is hot to us and 45 C is very hot. Ambient is considered to be=
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> 25 C. These are 104 F, 113 F, and 77 F in that order. It is interesting=20
> that the failure rate goes down at first. I still like to keep my=20
> electronics as close to 25 C as I can. As I have said before I now have=20
> drives that are over 10 years old. I run my systems almost 24/7.
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Hi Richard,

Over the past 12 years I have found that a constant 25degC temperature
environment for the drives works best - lost too many drives - and some
data - to know.
I don't power cycle my equipment, it's 24/7 temperature controlled. All
runs smoothly.

I read some of the drive failure report, but I'm with Richard on this one.

Especially non-commercial set-ups, where the average person doesn't
necessarily have their systems in an ambient controlled environment.  I
believe it's the temperature differential, power cycling, and maybe
power failure, that all contribute to main drive / hardware failure.

Peter
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