Hard Drive Failure: it's not the heat, it's the humidity

Heat doesn't kill hard drives. Here's what does

...researchers....of Microsoft, studied how the higher and more variable temperatures and humidity of free-cooling affect hardware components. They reached three key conclusions:

• Relative humidity, not higher or more variable temperatures, has a dominant impact on disk failures.
• High relative humidity causes disk failures largely due to controller/adapter malfunction.
• Despite the higher failure rates, software to mask failures and enable free-cooling is a huge money-saver.

(ZDNet)

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