Re: Ambient temperature spike: effect on hardware?

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

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    "Stefaan A Eeckels" <tengo@DELETEMEecc.lu> wrote in message
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    > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:06:24 GMT
    > "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    >
    >> 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?
    >
    > Both the e4500 and the v1280 are rated up to 104F,
    > so they're probably OK.
    > As to the disk arrays, if they work OK I'd be amazed
    > that the data is not correct; after all, there's a
    > significant amount of redundancy and error checking
    > on modern disks. That being said, you might experience
    > an increased failure rate on the drives in the coming
    > months.
    > I'd keep a close eye on the system logs for a
    > while as well.

    Thanks for your informative reply.

    Cheers,

    S

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