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

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In article <spv07b$alf$1 at dont-email.me>, =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Den 2021-12-22 kl. 06:55, skrev Dave Froble:
>> On 12/21/2021 7:59 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> 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...
>> 
>> For some of us, "F" is standard.
>> 
>> As is inches, feet, yards, miles, pounds, quarts, gallons, etc ...
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>
>Right, I have heard about that. While the rest of the world has moved on.

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