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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dpg" data-source="post: 296703" data-attributes="member: 7030">Google Claims Hard Drives Don’t Fail Because of High Temperature or Usage.One common argument in the world of computing is that high temperatures make hard drives more likely to fail, and the same is said for high usage levels. However, when conducting internal research, search giant Google suggests that this is only true for hard drives in their first months of operation or once they are over five years old. According to Google, there are so many other variables that the biggest factor in the lifetime of hard drives is actually the model itself rather than the conditions. In fact, Google saw a trend suggesting that drives are more likely to fail at lower temperatures or extremely high temperatures, and generally speaking, hard drives failed less as temperature increased (until these extremes were reached). As for high usage, the research showed that hard drives only seem to be affected by high usage in the first months or after it is five years old, and other than that the rate of failure was the same as drives in low-usage environments.Source: <a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/16/google_hard_drives/" target="_blank">TG Daily</a></blockquote>

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