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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-12-22 kl. 01:24, skrev 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
> 

Aha! F! Why not use a standard temp scale.
I thought it sounded a bit high...