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Study Finds That Humidity Has More Effect On Drive Failures Than Temperature (rackcdn.com)
AmiMoJo writes: A study by Rutgers University and Microsoft has found that hard drives are more prone to failure due to high levels of humidity [PDF] than high temperature. With a view to 'free cooling' data centres (using low external air temperature for cooling to save power), the paper notes that humidity related malfunctions of the driver controller / adapter are the dominant cause of drive failure. The good news is that while the researchers found that high relative humidity was a significant factor in drive failures, "[S]oftware
availability techniques can mask them and enable freecooled operation, resulting in significantly lower infrastructure and energy costs that far outweigh the cost of the extra component failures."
Smartphones are computers that make phone calls, and most everyone who has one leaves it on 24/7.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Hospitals have computers that run 24/7. Police departments have computers that run 24/7. EMS have computers that run 24/7. The military have computers that run 24/7. Just about any 24hr operation will have computers that run 24/7. Life doesn't end just because you are asleep.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
So you don't think Police, Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics are average people? All those servers are on 24/7 so they can serve clients 24/7.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.