[OmniOS-discuss] Overheating faults with ST4000NM0023

[Saso Kiselkov]

On 8/6/13 1:48 PM, Thibault VINCENT wrote:
> I invite you looking at the report from Google "Failure Trends in a
> Large Disk Drive Population" (2007) in which they found 45°C was the
> best compromise for lifetime. Going lower or higher will increase
> different kind of failure. Colder is not the best!

While Google's paper on this is highly informative, keep also in mind
that it was written with 2007 and earlier technology in mind. 2007 was
when the maximum capacity HDDs had was 1TB with consumer-grade
reliability. The drive we're talking about here has four times the data
density and presumably enterprise-grade reliability. Mechanically it's
still fairly similar, but the nanotechnology that goes into making the
patters and tracks can be very, very different.

Anyways, hope you get through to Seagate and find out what's going on.

Cheers,
-- 
Saso