On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:13:31PM +1000, taso wrote: > >Yes, I am. As I said, you should put them close to an exhaust fan to > >pull warm air off them. The temperature sensors at the hard drive > The HD temperature CANNOT be lower than ambient unless there is some type > of refrigeration happening. Therefore, your drives are either refrigerated > or your measurements are suspect. Or, a third possibility, which is: you are misunderstanding what Ben is saying. :) He means the ambient temperature *inside* the case, not outside. Presumably, it's not 40C in his server room or office. Even my poorly-conditioned office is, as you can see below, only 82 degrees F -- about 27C. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
