Do High Temperatures Kill Hard Drives?

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Tim Higgins

The cloud backup provider’s latest storage reliability analysis published today included data on over 34,000 3.5" hard drives including 19 models looking for correlation between temperature and failure rate. Weak correlation was found on only two drive models.

See Backblaze’s post for the details.

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