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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by tlb on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:10PM (#16990468)
The drive produces heat, so it will always be hotter than ambient (proportional to the heat generated times the thermal resistance).
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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by jacquesm on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:12PM (#16990484)
Not necessarily, the drive produces heat but something around it (other drives, cpu's) may be producing a lot more heat than the drive raising the temperature of the drive casing beyond where it would be if it were just the drive in isolation.

Case design for lots of drives + a beefy CPU is very tricky if you want to really balance the airflow so that there are no large local variations in temperature.

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