[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[Dennis Boone]

 > If you run your data center in the 80s instead of the 60s, you get a 
 > considerably shorter lifespan on your hardware.  Great decrease in MTTF
 > mostly due to capacitor failures but also CPU failures to a lesser extent.

Not everyone agrees.  For example, Google and Backblaze both say
temperature isn't as big a factor in disk drive life as you'd expect.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-it-matter/

The Google link in that document talks specifically about hard drives.
Elsewhere, Google also report that they run their datacenters at 80
degrees:

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/

De