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I'm a bit worried about the high humidity. My machine gets very dusty so I hose it down about once a month. I wonder if this will shorten the life of the disks?
Heat doesn't kill hard drives. Here's what does
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I know for a fact that high heat does kill hard drives... I've seen it in poorly ventilated PC's with monster video cards over and over again. The humidity is fine because it's in an air conditioned room.
This study is about data centers, which generally have good ventilation, but they're not using air conditioned air, so it's probably a bad idea to draw conclusions about other environments.
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It will feel weird if PC's had no hard drive and it would still work
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When I used computers, I used HDD's boxes, they do not just lower temperature, but prevent dust and humidity.
But one of the killers is also turning HDD on/off, that includes power saving and sleep, better to disable it.
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I have a 500gb SSD (Samsung 850 Evo) and have stopped using Mechanical drives. I backup my stuff to a NAS with 3x2tb WD Reds
and that seems to be ok for me. My NAS is in an area that is a constant temp and so I am confident this won't be a major issue? :)
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Yea my NAS is in a room thats not used much and the heating is off so its quite cool. Ideal conditions!
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Don't drop them on to Granite floors from a height either. !!!!
As far as high humidity is concerned - that will more or less kill any electronics - and if you are near a coast too the salt in the air will be as efficient as concentrated Sulphuric or Nitric Acid as eating into the metalwork.
At least where I am that's not an issue at all at any time of the year !!
@swarfega SSD's are perfectly large and reliable enough for NAS boxes -- I'd love to get 4 X 4 TB SSD's for my box so the whole thing could be the size of my router / cablebox with no heat / fan etc etc. Google and Amazon use large SSD's in their datacentres already -- the main problem for us "Consumers" is the cost which actually IS coming down in leaps and bounds.
By this time next year decent high capacity SSD's will be "reasonably" affordable a 4TB SSD probably about 1.5X the cost of a decent 4TB spinner at todays prices.
Cheers
jimbo
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