Hard Drive Temperature – Does It Matter?

http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/05/12/hard-drive-temperature-does-it-matter/

 

I have an old seagate drive, 7 years old and still kicking with a few bad sectors. It stays on most of the time and the temp. is almost always above 50 deg. C, sometimes it even hits 60! There's a lot read/write on that drive and it contains mostly backup files etc. But considering how old it is, I still find it fascinating.

 

If you think a 7 year old drive is interesting, you should see my Apple II HDD from the 1980's!
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Note the "As you can see, all of the drives are well within the 0˚C (or 5˚C) to 60˚C that the manufacturers specify for the drives. And almost all of the drives are in the nice comfortable range from 15˚ to 30˚.

Had they studied drives across wider temperature ranges... including at temperatures outside of spec... the results would/should have been different.