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

[jtjt00]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/heat-doesnt-kill-hard-drives-heres-what-does/

 

[jedi5diah]

this i certainly agree

"Relative humidity"

thats why i go daiso often to stock dehumidifier lol...

 

[bunnypangsai]

How much water can you suck. Hahaha. Always find this sort of thing to be snake oil, in SG context.

this i certainly agree

"Relative humidity"

thats why i go daiso often to stock dehumidifier lol...

 

[jedi5diah]

How much water can you suck. Hahaha. Always find this sort of thing to be snake oil, in SG context.

it works for storage areas, open air ofcos meaningless

my console area can be close so i use it.

every 2 months change once about 300ml of water per pack

 

[xiaowhois]

interesting article

 

[koreanlover]

So do HDDs die faster in SG, since SG has high relative humidity ?

 

[WhiteHunter]

didn't know that.

 

[wwenze]

Article is by zdnet

 

[jtec14]

jialat... Singapore so humid...

 

[kandinsky]

Lol, so I should put my ext HDDs in storage in the dry cabinet??

 

[Audiology93]

Place 1 box of Thirsty Hippo inside chassis???

I do have a dehumidifier charcoal on top of my rig though.

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[commach]

Heat is not the killer, nice find.

Placed two sack of silica gel on every rack so they don't even need to run cooling system, saved power and at the same time, prolong the service life of the HDDs.

 

[Godeau]

I need a dry room

 

[harky]

sure a not ?? i tot is heat

 

[batniss]

so we have been doing it wrongly all these while?

 

[wadsad]

 

[ykgoh]

burying my HDD in rice nao!

 

[jedi5diah]

so we have been doing it wrongly all these while?

anyway there will be some of our own things are abused by ourselves that will never spoil, even when we wish it will lol...

 

[watzup_ken]

I believe humidity is bad for anything electronic, not just hard disk.

 

[mosmos]

if not heat then is what the causes of early failure?

In Singapore or even UK where humidity is very high, our RMA HDD figures are the highest among other dry countries?