Ambient temperature spike: effect on hardware?

From: sinister (sinister_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:06:24 GMT

At work, some idiots turned the AC in our building off over this weekend,
which resulted in a temperature spike in our equipment room, whose AC
(unfortunately) is part of the building system and not independent. There's
a v1280 and an e4500, with some RAIDs.

I got there in about 11 hours and called the sysadmin, who shut the system
down after about 12 hours from event onset. When I first got there, the
room temp was well over 100 F, maybe as high as 120 F. A phone I picked up
was very warm to the touch.

The e4500 had taken itself down. The v1280 was still up, but the raids were
all down (ie, not mounted, but still running and generating heat).

Word has it that the system is back up now and that he got all but one raid
up.

At those tempatures, for that duration, is there a significant chance that
the equipment is seriously damaged? Is there a chance that the data on the
raids looks fine but actually isn't?

-S