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

[Scott Dorsey]

Dennis Boone <drb at ihatespam.msu.edu> wrote:
> > 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.

Yes, it doesn't have as big an effect on hard drives.  As I said, it's mostly
increased numbers of electrolytic capacitor failures and to a lesser extent
CPU failures.

>Elsewhere, Google also report that they run their datacenters at 80
>degrees:
>
>https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/

Yes.  It's more cost-effective for them and they are changing the hardware
out on a fairly short cycle anyway.
--scott
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