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Hard Drive noise damping
« on: May 12, 2008, 06:05:23 am »
I've noticed recently the hard drive noise in my cab is quite loud...I'm sure it didn't used to be as bad, it is now on a wooden floor (as opposed to carpet). It almost sounds like the cabinet box is amplifying the vibration/noise.

My HDD is fixed to a board using metal brackets. I thought I might put some rubber between the drive and the brackets.  Any other tricks I could do?

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2008, 06:56:49 am »
 You could put the drive in a hard drive cage,  then string the cage up (suspended in air) with
bungee cords.    Most the noise is from vibrational conduction.   

 Even rubber feet will still conduct vibrations pretty darn well  (unless its soft gushy stuff like those wall-walker
toys)...  but suspended via bungee will be extremely hard for any vibrations to be transmitted to the cabinet walls.   

 I also recommend making sure there is a fan blowing air across the drives surface to expand its life expectancy.   (heat dramatically reduces HD lifespans)

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 Added:   Also,  do not string the bungee too tight.   Just cross-suspend with adequate tension to
hold the thing in place.    The tighter the tension, the more likely vibration will be able to make it
to the cab sides.


 If it is simply a very noisy drive and vibration is not really the culprit..  you might build a small wooden box
around it to separate it from the rest of the cabinet.     Place an intake hole on the cab side of that box -
with fan pushing air towards the drive and out the back of the cabinet thru an exit hole.   

 Suspend + mini-box enclosure for best results.  (besides buying a solid state drive :P  )   
 
« Last Edit: May 12, 2008, 07:12:39 am by Xiaou2 »

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2008, 08:25:56 am »
I read a review that showed a PC with a busy drive would would quiet down from 45.2 dB(A) to 39.5 (Idle from 42.3 db(A) to 39.1) when put in a Silentmaxx HD-Silencer Rev 2.0 It wasn't this review though, (it was a Dutch one) It was the best cooling silencer in the test. These things cost a fortune though.

Another option was rubber feet for mounting the drive. This showed to be less effective with active to 41.8 and idle to 40.4, but still pretty good.

If it's mostly vibration resonating through the case rubber mounting feet or a rubber band solution might be enough.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2008, 11:12:42 am »
I'm very surprised that a hard drive could be that noisey. ... It's louder than your CPU fan??
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2008, 11:42:54 am »
One thing to make sure of is if you have a CD or DVD drive, take any discs out. When I forget and leave one in, I'm reminded VERY quickly to take it out.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2008, 11:25:48 pm »
Unless you are going for a FULL installation with all the CHD games you can actually just run the whole system off a compact flash card and have no hard drive at all. Combine with one of those fanless slimline PCs and the whole thing could be silent.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2008, 01:57:21 am »
cut piece's off your old blank cd dvd media top rubber/foam ring that is on the top to hold the disk from moving up and down and drill a hole through the center after cutting them in a sqaure shape or something.

yeah my dvd drive sounds like a baffled/muffled router when it gets going with a disk left in lol.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2008, 05:37:53 am »
I'm very surprised that a hard drive could be that noisey. ... It's louder than your CPU fan??

Most of the CPU fan noise is cut out when all the doors are on/closed, and it is not too noticable. The HDD noise is fine most of the time too, but when particularly busy the 'churning' sound seems really loud...it definately sounds to me as if the noise is being transferred through the cabinet sides, amplifying it.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2008, 05:39:54 am »
One thing to make sure of is if you have a CD or DVD drive, take any discs out. When I forget and leave one in, I'm reminded VERY quickly to take it out.

Yes I know what you mean. I don't have a CD/DVD drive in my cabinet tho.

Unless you are going for a FULL installation with all the CHD games you can actually just run the whole system off a compact flash card and have no hard drive at all. Combine with one of those fanless slimline PCs and the whole thing could be silent.

I like the idea of this in theory, but last time I looked there wasn't a CF card big enough for my needs.  I think in a bartop or something I would definately consider this.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2008, 05:54:41 am »
Thanks for all the suggestions...at the moment my drive is mounted vertically, I might have a go at suspending it horizontally as in some of those articles.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2008, 06:20:18 am »
I also recommend making sure there is a fan blowing air across the drives surface to expand its life expectancy.   (heat dramatically reduces HD lifespans)

what is hot for a hard drive  :dunno

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2008, 06:34:38 am »
I also recommend making sure there is a fan blowing air across the drives surface to expand its life expectancy.   (heat dramatically reduces HD lifespans)

what is hot for a hard drive  :dunno
Google's research showed that (in a normal operating environment) temperature isn't one of the most important factors in drive failure anyway. IIRC only in old drives, higher temperatures showed higher failure rates.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2008, 10:25:09 pm »
 I had 4 drives fail on me over the years.   Always was the dive that was mounted on top.
The bottom drive cooked the top drive to early death.

 Ever since Ive placed at least 1cm+ between drives and had fans blowing across the
surface,  Ive not have any drives fail (several years).   Ive had 4 drives hooked
up in my custom case for over 3yrs.  And for about 3 yrs, have had 8 drives hooked up in
my new case mod.


 They are cool to the touch at all times. (unless its the middle of the summer heat, and the AC is not on)



 Hard drives have insane tolerances.  Heat can cause metal to expand... and quite possibly
cause head to wear and damage much faster.   It may also cause premature bearing wear.


 Also Minwah,  you could still use a vertical mount with the hanging solution.   Ive personally always
been leery of mounting vertical because Im not sure if the bearings and head will hold up as long
that way.  However, life expectancy reduction vertically is probably only minimal reduction at best, if at all.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2008, 11:58:29 pm »
The largest compact flash cards out there now are 64 GB. I'd be hard pressed to fill THAT in a cabinet unless I was just dumping every rom ever dumped for every system ever made onto it.

One thing to make sure of is if you have a CD or DVD drive, take any discs out. When I forget and leave one in, I'm reminded VERY quickly to take it out.

Yes I know what you mean. I don't have a CD/DVD drive in my cabinet tho.

Unless you are going for a FULL installation with all the CHD games you can actually just run the whole system off a compact flash card and have no hard drive at all. Combine with one of those fanless slimline PCs and the whole thing could be silent.

I like the idea of this in theory, but last time I looked there wasn't a CF card big enough for my needs.  I think in a bartop or something I would definately consider this.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2008, 01:24:45 am »
heh,   my mame folder is 65 gigs   ;D

 When you add artwork, samples, icons, and other stuff... it adds up.

 
 Btw - it would seem that these solid state drives should whip the pants off a spinning disc...
however,  the results that some are posting arnt as impressive as you might think.   

 For one, I think they shouldnt be using standard SATA interfaces.   Should be some faster port developed
for them...  or a custom card interface...etc.   Not sure how fast the internal bandwidth is on those drives...
but one would think that the connection pipe would be the real limiting factor...

 I saw a setup that uses PC RAM in bunches for Hard Disk emulation.  Its constantly powered with
battery backup - and its speeds are insane!   Of course... the prices are pretty insane for them too.
Still, if one had the money.. booting windows in 2 sec's flat would be da Bomb  :)
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2008, 02:41:34 am »
Ive not have any drives fail (several years).   Ive had 4 drives hooked
up in my custom case for over 3yrs.  And for about 3 yrs, have had 8 drives hooked up in
my new case mod.
Google did their report based on 100,000 drives. They actually found that drives with abnormally low temperatures (cooler than 30C) had the highest failure rates.

They found that the most reliable operating temperature for a drive is somewehere between 37 and 43 degrees celcius.

I have never seen a 64GB compact flash for sale, but if they were then I would guess (based on 32GB CF prices) they would cost somewhere between $300 and $600. Silencing your harddrive is a much cheaper option. A normal hard disk also doesn't have the hassle of trying to prevent disk writes as much as possible.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2008, 04:55:55 am »
The largest compact flash cards out there now are 64 GB.

I thought it was 4GB...guess I am a bit behind  ::)

But still, you can get a terrabyte HDD for next to nothing nowadays...

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2008, 11:56:06 am »
btw, defrag will help the noise a lot...  (and try and make the chd extra files (whatever they are called) at the end of the drive)

and you shouldn't really be hitting the drive while playing a game...

but I bet you could easily make a platform with mini shocks on them... then mound your drive bay on that.  Bit of rubber tubing, nailing board to that.....  Then drive on board.  (nail -> rubber -> board with whole -> rubber -> cabinet in 4 spots... then mount the drive on the board...

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2008, 08:03:07 pm »

 Who is to say that Google's report is accurate?   Whos to say that they dont have some
behind the scenes deal with HD people?    Whos to know if the UPS guy drop kicked some of
those drives?   Whos to know if the companies that send them,  or the employees that install
them are not grounded to prevent static discharge - thus damaging the controllers?
There is a wealth of data that is missing and can never be known.. yet you accept it as
solid fact?   

 Who has more to gain by fudged numbers?   Certainly not me.   I dont sell HDs, nor case fans... nor
am I a billionaire.   

 You believe what you want to believe.  Ill go by my own experiences and logical deductions.


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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2008, 09:09:08 pm »
If the drive is getting noisier (as you seem to suspect), it may well be on its way to failure ... building it a hammock should probably rank behind making a backup and getting a replacement drive.

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« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2008, 10:03:31 pm »
Ill go by my own experiences and logical deductions.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2008, 11:23:17 pm »

Ill go by my own experiences and logical deductions.




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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2008, 03:33:23 am »

 Who is to say that Google's report is accurate?   Whos to say that they dont have some
behind the scenes deal with HD people?    Whos to know if the UPS guy drop kicked some of
those drives?   Whos to know if the companies that send them,  or the employees that install
them are not grounded to prevent static discharge - thus damaging the controllers?
There is a wealth of data that is missing and can never be known.. yet you accept it as
solid fact?   

 Who has more to gain by fudged numbers?   Certainly not me.   I dont sell HDs, nor case fans... nor
am I a billionaire.   

 You believe what you want to believe.  Ill go by my own experiences and logical deductions.



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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #23 on: May 15, 2008, 03:42:49 am »

 Who is to say that Google's report is accurate?
A 100,000 disk test set vs a home user with only a few disks?

Of course the Google report is pretty specific (disks running 24/7 in airconditioned server racks), but any conclusion you draw from your limited test set is useless at best.

Lets assume your hard disks are rated at 400,000 MTBF. That would mean an average annualized failure rate of 2%. With 8 disks running for 3 years that means a 48% chance that one breaks. So if none failed, does that mean that you improved things or simply that it was the 52% chance that no disk would fail?

It's nice that you want to come up with your own conclusions, but if you had any training in probability calculations you'd know you need a much larger test set to draw any reliable conclusions. You'd need to run hundreds of disks and wait for at least some percentage of disk failures before you can estimate the AFR. You'd need to repeat this test in both setups to see if any change occurs. Since I doubt you will be going through all that, I'm afraid you will have to rely on other people's conclusions on the matter.

On the other hand if at first you were running your disks so hot that they were outside of the allowed operating temperatures for the disk, then sure that would ruin them pretty quickly. When you have modern disks running between 35 and 45 degrees Celsius then there's no need to cool them.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #24 on: May 15, 2008, 03:44:40 am »
If the drive is getting noisier (as you seem to suspect), it may well be on its way to failure ... building it a hammock should probably rank behind making a backup and getting a replacement drive.


yeah, I was wondering that too, but then Minwah said that it changed after moving it off the carpet. The carpet might have removed some of the vibration noise before.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #25 on: May 15, 2008, 08:54:44 am »
yeah, I was wondering that too, but then Minwah said that it changed after moving it off the carpet. The carpet might have removed some of the vibration noise before.

Yes I don't think the drive itself has got noisier (although it's possible). I think carpet somehow absorbed some of the noise or at least made it appear quieter.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #26 on: May 15, 2008, 10:11:07 am »
yeah, I was wondering that too, but then Minwah said that it changed after moving it off the carpet. The carpet might have removed some of the vibration noise before.

Yes I don't think the drive itself has got noisier (although it's possible). I think carpet somehow absorbed some of the noise or at least made it appear quieter.
or maybe while moving the cabinet you damaged the disk  :P
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #27 on: May 15, 2008, 01:41:34 pm »
patrickl , there's no point in arguing with X about it. I've run HDD's in computers so hot, I've smoked RAM and melted plastic stand offs and supports. I still have a MB with melted CPU supports and a video card with melted ICs, both are still functional. As for the Hard drives from those computers? They're taking life easy in simple PC's around the house.

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« Reply #28 on: May 15, 2008, 02:06:54 pm »
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« Reply #29 on: May 15, 2008, 03:16:07 pm »
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« Reply #30 on: May 15, 2008, 05:10:01 pm »

  Facts?  Where?

  Ohh,  you mean those Assumptions that you call facts right?

 You assume that Google results are fact.  You have no proof of it.   Did you work there?
Did you supervise the Drives there?   Did you hand deliver the drives from the factories
to the Google plant?

 
 On the other hand...


 Anyone who thinks that heat does not effect life expectancies on both electrical and mechanical equipment
needs to go back and hit the books.


  Ive said all I need.  Believe whatever you wish.  But dont tell me that I have to take
Assumptions for facts.


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« Reply #31 on: May 15, 2008, 07:07:41 pm »
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #32 on: May 15, 2008, 07:19:57 pm »
Mount the drive using my trusted friend - hot melt glue. It's super-strong, super flexible and bonds to almost anything. Speakers, hard drives, you name it it will work, and dampens noise, disipates heat etc.

Oh, and on another note, I would advise using a mechanical drive over flash any day, particularly for a cabinet. I experimented with flash memory and found they do not like to be used as a hard drive. Eventually the normally insignificant read/write cycles of save states, hi-scores etc. corrupt the drive. At most I'd say go for a 2.5" drive as they are much quieter.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #33 on: May 15, 2008, 08:13:50 pm »
Facts?  Where?

  Ohh,  you mean those Assumptions that you call facts right?
Are you talking to me? I never even used the word "fact".

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Well I do take their word over yours yes.

Anyway, if not to take Googles word, then what is the alternative? Obviously one cannot test this at home and there are very few reports like this actually testing the correlation between temperature and failure rate. Most studies only look at the failure rates and have no data on operating temperatures of the disks. Seagate wrote a report looking at environment temperatures (which would relate in some way to drive temperature), but their research is so obviously flawed (their MTBF estimates are nowhere near actual numbers found in usage tests) and done under unrealistic conditions, that I rather take Google's word over Seagate's word.

Funny thing is that Seagate tests their disks by running them for a month in an oven set at 42 degrees Celsius. So their tech people are basically building disks to run more reliable at this temperature (and then assume that at lower temperatures it will be more reliable too). Now low and behold, modern hard disks are running most reliable at around 40 degrees Celsius.

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Anyone who thinks that heat does not effect life expectancies on both electrical and mechanical equipment needs to go back and hit the books.
Again, are you talking to me? I never said "heat" (or temperature) had no impact. Just that under normal conditions, Google found that it isn't the main cause of harddisk failure. I also said that running them too cool was shown to be more harmful than running them slightly hot. I even mentioned a specific temperature range where Google found their disks to most reliable. Last but not least I said that running hard disks over their operational temperature limit (around 55 or 60 degrees celsius) is likely to destroy them quickly. So I actually mentioned alot of correlations between drive failures and temperature.

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Ive said all I need.  Believe whatever you wish.  But dont tell me that I have to take Assumptions for facts.
Actually taking assumptions for facts is all you do. It's about be time that you took actual facts for facts.
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« Reply #34 on: May 15, 2008, 08:50:30 pm »
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #35 on: May 15, 2008, 09:59:34 pm »
Hey guys I likey this conversation.  Whom here has tried any sort of rubber band suspension on your drives..  I am trying to go silent with an evaporative water cooled rig and have recently noticed my drive noise because my fan noise no longer obfuscates it.  I am wondering which materials you guys have tried.  I have seen the rubber standoffs on the case modding sites, but I have heard that suspension is more effective.  regular rubber bands or elastic bands seem kind of ghetto so I was wondering if any of you have something more industrial/elaborate. 

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #36 on: May 16, 2008, 03:06:58 am »
regular rubber bands or elastic bands seem kind of ghetto so I was wondering if any of you have something more industrial/elaborate.
I haven't used these myself, but earlier I linked to a review of the NoVibes III HDD Decoupling Rack

BTW if you are afraid of your disk running hot, then the decoupling method is probably not a good idea. The disk then has no way to transfer it's heat to the case.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #37 on: May 16, 2008, 05:46:28 am »
or maybe while moving the cabinet you damaged the disk  :P

Unlikely as my PC board is removable, so it was moved seperately to the cabinet itself. It did have a short car ride, but sat nicely on my back seat :)

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #38 on: May 16, 2008, 04:10:59 pm »
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You assume that Google results are fact.
Well I do take their word over yours yes.

 :cheers:

regular rubber bands or elastic bands seem kind of ghetto so I was wondering if any of you have something more industrial/elaborate. 

Rubber bands, like office type rubber bands? Don't use regular rubber bands under any circumstances. They'll disintegrate or turn to goo regardless of environmental conditions. I have reservations about using any sort of rubber type product to suspend a hard drive. The cloth wound elastics seem to be a good compromise, if the rubber fails (which it is bound to do over time), the cloth will retain the drive until the bands are replaced.

I like to build things and forget about them. So rubber based products typically aren't a part of anything I construct unless they're absolutely necessary and I expect to replace them at some point. Of course, with a HDD, which will come first? Failure of the rubber or the drive? :P

What about silicon straps like what's offered on sites like this? With the abundance of those silicon bracelets, I imagine someone could fashion something nice up. What's silicon's life expectency?

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #39 on: May 16, 2008, 04:42:54 pm »
 So, you take a Corporation's word over a guy who isnt trying to sell you
anything?    Whats my motivation?   To make you buy a fan?!  Get real.


 You say that you never said fact at first... but then at the end, you invert that,
and claim fact.   You even use those 'so called' Facts in your argument.  However,
since you can not prove ANY of those as TRUE FACTS.. you have NO argument...
Only OPINIONS based on what someone told you.



 And finally... You admit heat does effect life expectancies...  yet,  it would appear that
you do not care about life expectancies of the drive.   Life expecancy = Time till cease of
operation  or  FAILURE.   

 Weather or not many drives fail for other reasons is irrelevant.    The argument was about
prolonging a drives life.

 Its my belief based on my experiences of at least 4 drives failing - all of them were
drives mounted above another drive and were scorching hot.   The odds being mere coincidences are fairly high IMOP.    As said, you believe whatever you want..  But claiming
Fact on unverified/unproven  data is something you can not do justly.



 Ohh, and as for the comment on credibility...  Ive already emailed Kev.  He can verify
that info at any time... and so could anyone else.   I loaned Dave Jones my laser printer
for the Rochester gameroom show.   I also was roped into directing parking of cars for
the 1st hour or so of the show.

 Want a post of my Namco paystub too while were at it?   As stated before, I have more
credibility that you ever will.


Documented:
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« Reply #40 on: May 16, 2008, 04:53:22 pm »
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« Reply #41 on: May 16, 2008, 05:04:55 pm »
So, you take a Corporation's word over a guy who isnt trying to sell you
anything?    Whats my motivation?   To make you buy a fan?!  Get real.

* CheffoJeffo toddles off to do a Google search for 'paranoid conspiracy theorist'

Yep, Google still works ... maybe they do know something about hard drives after all.

But I'll bet that Xiaou2, running 4 whole hard drives in his Mom's attic in Rochester knows more.

Not so much.

Ohh, and as for the comment on credibility...  Ive already emailed Kev.  He can verify
that info at any time... and so could anyone else.   I loaned Dave Jones my laser printer
for the Rochester gameroom show.   I also was roped into directing parking of cars for
the 1st hour or so of the show.

 Want a post of my Namco paystub too while were at it?   As stated before, I have more
credibility that you ever will.

WTF ?

Steve -- please take the time to read, properly interpret and understand what people are posting.

I never compared your credibility to mine (although I'm not sure that it would be much of a competition at this point!) -- *YOU* called Tim Arnold a liar. *I* said that he has far more credibility that you do with respect to operating pinball machines. If, for some reason, we should believe you instead of believing him, then, by all means, let us know how your tremendously impressive credentials managing a Namco arcade (or parking cars at the game show!!!!) outstrip his credentials as an OP, owner of 7 arcades, genius behind the Pinball Hall Of Fame and, widely acknowledged great pinball guy (to the point where Clay portrays the Shaggy character as a nod).

Or you could just threaten to beat saint up ...

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #42 on: May 16, 2008, 05:48:47 pm »
So, you take a Corporation's word over a guy who isnt trying to sell you
anything?    Whats my motivation?   To make you buy a fan?!  Get real.
I already explained why. Your study has no value at all since it doesn't meet the requirements for accurate probablity calculations. It doesn't even come close.

As Cheffo Already mentioned. You really do seem to have a hard time reading and understanding. Why do you keep making statements about things I didn't say or act like I'm disagreeing on things where I'm not?
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« Reply #43 on: May 16, 2008, 09:24:32 pm »
Hmmm.  Since when did Google start selling Hard Drives?  How would they be biased?  How do we know that you weren't paid to state what you're saying?  I'm more apt to believe a large study with lots of data and facts than a personal opinion.
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« Reply #44 on: May 16, 2008, 09:41:00 pm »
How do we know that you weren't paid to state what you're saying? 

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« Reply #45 on: May 16, 2008, 11:22:08 pm »
Thanks for the links and silicon idea, folks.  I may rig something up with some soft silicon tubing and see how it fares.  I am not worried about conductive heat transfer yet because I think that cool moving air may provide enough heat dissipation if I build this smartly.  hmm...  I may use silicon tubing, maybe I should have some cool water running through it...

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #46 on: May 17, 2008, 04:34:16 am »
Another suggestion I saw was to put the drive on soft foam on the bottom of the case. That might be easier for Minwah to do.

If the drive starts running hot after decoupling it (lets say over 45C or something), screwing lengths of aluminum U-channel on the sides of the drive seems to help a lot.

There is a whole thread on silentpcreview about HDD Elastic Suspension with lots of DIY solutions and pictures. Many of these decoupling methods look pretty dangerous for when you move the case/cabinet. Some people just hang their drives on some bungee cord. Or like the foam thread where they simply stand it on some foam. I'd really want my drives to be stuck firmly in their position. I guess I'd personally just pay for the Novibes drive cage.

There are some cool ghetto suggestions though:
- The bubble wrap mount
- Suspended in shipping materials
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #47 on: May 18, 2008, 03:59:48 pm »
 Funny how you are telling me I dont read and understand.  Yet at the same moment,
I never made one threat.   Anyone could see that.    I was responding to what I thought
was a threat aimed at me.     I didnt make a threat... I made a Promise.   A promise that
anyone who dares to come and hunt me down will be damaged severely.   Its called
self defense Idiot.

 Clearly "Dont make me come down there"  can be interpreted in many ways.    In the
heat of the moment, one can sometimes lose their better judgment.

 You and others also Twisted my words to mean other things on purpose.


 They said: " They *somehow* kept their 200  plus machines one step ahead of such break downs."

 My reply:

  "Thats Either that is a Lie, or a mis-interpretation... or something else..."

 
 And on top of that all,  he wasnt even making the correct arguement.   As I had stated,
that the reasons pinball fails is due to something on a machines that is broken.   He
made the argument that  Ops found it easy to keep games from going completely down... where
as I was making the argument that ops could not maintain several pins 100% from all failures,
within a good given time period.   That when dealing with several pins on location,  you will
get at least one failure of Something during a week of time.  (if not many failures in a week)

 Maintaining several pins on busy location spots is not easy, and is too extensive to keep
them working 100% all the time... which equates to frustereated players who decided not
to put their money into the things anymore cause they are tired of an getting a game
that does not work as its supposed to.


 Twist my words again Chefo- Idioto.


----

 As for a HD cage...   you could actually make a simple version using metal strips. 

 Get 4 strips of metal. (or 2 long strips)  Drill a hole in each strip on both ends.  One end will be used
to mount to the  drive. 

 The other end,  attach keyrings or similar - which you can attach bungee or other
tube/belts..etc. to.


 As for Heat dissipation on HD's thru the case..  that actually almost non-existent.   Most
the heat seems to eminate from the top of the drive.   The side is very cool comparatively.   

 A fan will provide like 95% more dissapation than the probably 5% disapation that the case
would supposedly provide.   Cases are very poor heat sinks.  They arnt desiged to be.
The are thin metal merely for cost, and grounding.


  Which does bring a good point.   When suspending a HD.  make sure to attach a loose grounding
wire from one of the HDs screws to a place on the case... or tie it into something that grounds.
That way static will not buildup and cause damages to the drive.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #48 on: May 18, 2008, 04:05:55 pm »
In the heat of the moment, one can sometimes lose their better judgment.
and then there are some who don't have it to begin with  :angel:
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« Reply #49 on: May 18, 2008, 04:12:29 pm »

 I guess twisting someones words also equates to better judgment?

 Your far from one to talk about judgments or intelligence.



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« Reply #50 on: May 18, 2008, 05:52:49 pm »
Funny how you are telling me I dont read and understand.

 You and others also Twisted my words to mean other things on purpose.

 They said: " They *somehow* kept their 200  plus machines one step ahead of such break downs."

 My reply:  "Thats Either that is a Lie, or a mis-interpretation... or something else..."

Steve -- if you are going to refer to threads that are actually still available, you had best learn some quote-fu -- one of the reasons that people don't like your complete inability to master the quote features in SMF is that you choose to make stuff up and insert it in your already-poorly-formatted postings instead of providing accurate quotes and links.

If you reread (or, I guess, read, since you didn't bother the first time) the post that I made in this thread, I was referring to how you called Tim Arnold  a liar, not someone who posted in that thread. I could understand you missing this point had I not mentioned Tim Arnold by name, but since I did mention him by name, the only conclusion that I am left with is that you aren't able/willing to take the time to understand what is being posted.

To recap, in the article in question, Tim Arnold (NOT Gary Stern as you have completely failed to grasp) said that the reason that pinball has died off is that there aren't machines out there to play. You replied Wrong! and proceeded into your partially-correct, but still misleading, diatribe about the reliability of pinball machines. Later in that same thread, you called Tim Arnold a liar. You also called other folks liars, and I questioned your credibility compared to those whom you called liars (including Gary Stern, although you were mistaken when you called him a liar).

Blah article on pinball
He's right, the problem is there is nowhere to play pinball.
But Stern says pinball will still be around in 10 yrs
NY Times Article

Wrong!!!

People put pins on location all the time.   In bars, laundry, pizza joints, rest stops, and more.

The reason pinball died was due to the fact that they are poorly designed.   They fail too
often... and those failures cause the gameplay to be too terrible for a player to waste money on.

It also proves that his answer was a lie.  There are places to play.

You realize it was Tim Arnold, not Gary Stern, who said that, right ?

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“The thing that’s killing pinball,” Mr. Arnold added, “is not that people don’t like it. It’s that there’s nowhere to play it.”

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Corner shops, pubs, arcades and bowling alleys stopped stocking pinball machines. A younger audience turned to video games. Men of a certain age, said Mr. Arnold, who is 52, became the reliable audience. (“Chicks,” he announced, “don’t get it.”)

Let me get this straight ... we have had to endure your rantings, along with your personal insults ... because you're comprehensionally-impaired ?

 :dizzy:

You have chosen to reinterpret the reality of what was said based on your failed comprehension and resort, once again, to personal insults instead of intelligent discourse about what was actually posted.

I'd also say that it was pretty clear to anybody with a pulse that saint wasn't threatening you -- you however chose to respond with a threat of violence. Peale even pointed out that saint wasn't threatening you.

If you can't be bothered to know who you are responding to, how can we believe that you take the time to understand what you are responding to ?

For my part, I have not and will not threaten anybody with physical harm -- the Internet Tough Guy(tm) label belonged to tommy, but has now apparently passed to you. I had assumed that this was a result of your inability to actually maintain a coherent train of thought and argue the merits.

FWIW, I don't think that the anonymous nobody label applies to me -- I suspect that more people here know me in the RealWorld(tm) than know you. I believe that you helped some of them park their cars. I'm not particularly hard to find and am usually pretty easy to get along with ... right up until you call people names and ignore what they say.

As saint has pointed out, sometimes people post without thinking (at least I think that was his explanation for what you did), so we should give them a second chance.

I tend to agree ... but, lo and behold, the first chance you got, you chose to resume your personal attacks and ignore what is actually posted.

Maybe he was wrong.

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« Reply #51 on: May 18, 2008, 10:57:38 pm »
instead of providing accurate quotes

 I provided an accurate quote just as listed above.  I have no need to make things up.
Im not caught up in my own ego like some others here.

 If I choose to quote in another manor, that is my choice  Mr. Board Nazi.
I dont force anyone to read my posts.. nor do I tell others how they should post.


 My mistake for getting a name wrong.  However, my points are still on par IMOP.


 As for your info where I called others liars..  well, thats funny cause I dont see that
quoted?   

 As for Calling Tim a liar about maintenance,  I basically did so conditionally:  Only if he said that he
could keep pins running without any maintenance issues in a week.   Im talking any flaws
whatsoever.    As anyone with more than 10 pins in busy locations is going to have at least one problem of some sort in a weeks time.   
 
 Anyone involved in pinball should easily know this.

 It was the posters argument that was misleading,  as he misunderstood the entire
argument and only took my meaning to mean  a game that powers up and is playable.  Not
a game that has mechanical flaws.

 
 You say I cant grasp the issues... and yet, theres one more poster besides yourself
who doesnt even grasp the arguments.


 Personal insults instead of intelligent discourse

 Lol.  Your a trip.  Why dont you start looking thru the various postings to see who starts
throwing insults first!   And how I usually restrain my retorts until more than one such remarks
is sent my way.

I'd also say that it was pretty clear to anybody with a pulse that saint wasn't threatening you -- you however chose to respond with a threat of violence. Peale even pointed out that saint wasn't threatening you.


 I had several board punks on my case.. one of which said that it was mentioned that
there was talk of people coming down to visit me.   

 Had I a chance to calm down, I would have realized Saints meaning.  However, since I was
wrongly banned,  I had no change to retract my post.

chose to resume your personal attacks

  Where do you see that?

 Nowhere. 

  All you are is a worthless button pusher who things that you can get away with
your hypnosis routine to fool the mindless suckers into getting your way.

 No, I never once made any threat.   I merely made a warning.   

 I am a highly skilled artist, trained in lethal techniques which I have mastered over
years of dedication.   I do not take ANY personal attack as a 'play'  fight.   If one is stupid
enough to do so,  they are gambling with their life.   I dont gamble.  I dont play.

 I dont hold back like some others might.   If someone decides they even want to consider
testing me... they had better be warned of that fact.   For their own safety, and for the record
of the courts if/when  their family members try to sue me for the results.

 
 There are plenty of internet bullies here.  Mostly deal in psychological crap.   Its no wonder
why there are many nice people who choose not to post in forums, merely because of these
jerks. 

 Im very familiar with people like this, as Ive dealt with their abuses all my life... and Im tired of
taking it instead of dishing it right back.   Exposing those people for the real turds they really are.


 I also find it great how you try to demean me for helping out with the show by directing cars.
Shows how low of a person you really are.


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« Reply #52 on: May 18, 2008, 11:08:17 pm »
 :blah:  :blah:
 :blah:  :blah:
 :blah:  :blah:

*Wish I had some of that popcorn... and maybe the last 5 minutes of my life back wasted reading this LOL   :laugh2:

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« Reply #53 on: May 18, 2008, 11:17:01 pm »
 
 You wasted another 1 posting a pathetic instigative reply,  while you could have been doing
something positive or useful.

 I guess you should have a look in the mirror before you make a judgment call.


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« Reply #54 on: May 18, 2008, 11:27:37 pm »
* Hoopz throws some popcorn and hands a beer to the boogieman then questions why he is hanging with a guy named the boogieman.

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« Reply #56 on: May 19, 2008, 03:17:26 am »
No, I never once made any threat.   I merely made a warning.
And that's different how?

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threat1 [θret] noun
a warning that one is going to hurt or punish someone

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I had several board punks on my case.. one of which said that it was mentioned that
there was talk of people coming down to visit me.
Before your threat there was only one post on the subject and it contained a direct and full quote of saints post. It was from HarumaN, who is neither a punk nor "on your case". Besides, you had about half an hour to cool down and realize your mistake. You were even warned by someone.

The only thing that was "wrongly" about your ban was that it was too short.

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merely because of these jerks. ...
Exposing those people for the real turds they really are.
Do you have any idea why just about everybody here is getting so fed up with you?
- It's just impossible to have a useful discussion with you, because you see every disagreement as a personal insult. Whatever you say should be taken as the ultimate truth since you are an accomplished <fill in whatever you claim to be the expert in at the time>
- You are unable or unwilling to understand what you are reading and instead you seem to base your posts on some wild imagination of what you assume other people post
- Your posts are (purposefully) unreadable

All this shows your utter lack of respect for all people on this form. Which in fact makes you the jerk/turd

As a case study, if you want to know where this thread went wrong then this is the post where you started it. This post nets you 3 insults as a return. I post a polite reply demonstrating the mathematical inaccuracies of your "study" and you reply with an even bolder insult. From there you break down into your usual loon act and people start popping their corn.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #57 on: May 19, 2008, 08:37:15 am »
+1 Ignore

EDIT: It just occured to me that perhaps it looked like I was replying to patrickl in my +1 Ignore post -- sorry -- that honour was reserved for Xiaou2. Sorry -- was at the cottage and on a slow connection -- my turn for poor quote-fu. Apologies.  :cheers:
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #58 on: May 19, 2008, 09:40:42 am »
+1 Ignore
Is that a threat or a warning?

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #59 on: May 19, 2008, 10:26:36 am »
+1 Ignore
Is that a threat or a warning?
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Just make sure that your affairs are in order ...

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #60 on: May 19, 2008, 01:06:05 pm »
+1 Ignore
Is that a threat or a warning?
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Just make sure that your affairs are in order ...

 ;)
Did you look in the mirror before you made that judgment call?  :angel:

I guess I better add mine too.
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #61 on: May 19, 2008, 05:52:54 pm »
I just figure that saint would prefer that I simply ignore Xiaou2 instead of engaging him to the point that he goes all trannyq/shorthair/suits00/hayabusa/genesim/tommy all over the place.

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #62 on: May 19, 2008, 11:04:24 pm »
From the dictionary:
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threat1 [θret] noun
a warning that one is going to hurt or punish someone

 A Threat:  Im gona kick your butt next time I see you.

 A Warning:  If you put your hands on me,  I will react negatively.

 Theres a HUGE difference, and Anyone with any sense can understand that.
I feel as if Im talking with infants.



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  Do you have any idea why just about everybody here is getting so fed up with you?

 Everyone?!  A little presumptuous  arent we?!   How about this:   You are a Nazi who
cant accept people who have different viewpoints or opinions.

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- It's just impossible to have a useful discussion with you, because you see every disagreement as a personal insult.

 Nope.  The insults are thrown only after there is a disagreement... and they are from Nazi's like
yourself.


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All this shows your utter lack of respect for all people on this form. Which in fact makes you the jerk/turd

 lol.   Respect?   Your one to talk about respect!   Most all the Punk posters who decide to rail
insults my way are the worst offenders of "Respect"  here. 


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As a case study, if you want to know where this thread went wrong then this is the post where you started it. This post nets you 3 insults as a return. I post a polite reply demonstrating the mathematical inaccuracies of your "study" and you reply with an even bolder insult. From there you break down into your usual loon act and people start popping their corn.


  Basically, you proved my point.   You have the OPINION that the Google study is Valid.   I choose not
to believe it.    I tell you to believe what you want.... instead of trying to argue with an OPINION.   
 
 But, what I get is  Personal Attacks and Insults merely because I choose not to believe in
what you believe.   

 This is why you and your not so merry gang are in fact Turds.  The board Nazi's.
You simply cant handle anyone who disagrees with you.  It drives you to insanity... and so you
feel you have to resort to insults to cope with it. 

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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #63 on: May 19, 2008, 11:08:03 pm »
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Re: Hard Drive noise damping
« Reply #64 on: May 20, 2008, 06:40:06 am »
  Basically, you proved my point.   You have the OPINION that the Google study is Valid.   I choose not
to believe it.    I tell you to believe what you want.... instead of trying to argue with an OPINION.   
 
 But, what I get is  Personal Attacks and Insults merely because I choose not to believe in
what you believe.   
I have no problem when you disagree with me. I only require that you came with some proper facts or at least some reasoning why Google should be wrong. There is no need to start insulting me like I'm some idiot who believes everything on the internet. I'm not someone who goes around introducing people to the concept of 'death trains'.

I run my own company and in that capacity I oversee computer hardware with in total around 30 hard disks. Most of them running 24/7. With a fair share of harddisk failures over the years and several high availability applications running, I have a higher than average interest in the subject. I monitor the temperature of most hard disks continuously with emails going out if a disk overheats.

Actually none of that is really important to the debate, it has nothing to do with my opinion either. Even if I had agreed on your conclusion I would have posted the same. In fact I don't think we really differ that much on the conclusion, although you keep misinterpreting my opinion. All we differ on is that I'm taking Google's take that cooling disks below 37 degrees Celcius is worse and not better for your disks.

What I did do was tosimply explain that your study is flawed and that a 8 disk test set is not big enough to draw any useful conclusions from. Anyone with basic education in probability calculations could tell you that your findings are not significant. No other experience or credentials are needed for that. if you make false claims then you can be sure that people will correct you. BTW I'm talking about your suggestion that your home run test has any weight and not on whether disks perform better at room temperature.

Sure you can have your own opinion, but if you start trying to persuade people that your opinion is right, you better have something more to back this opinion up. What have you offered besides insults and assumptions  that Google could conceivably be lying. Of which again you have not been able to give us even a shred of evidence.

Besides there is plenty to talk about iof you want to discuss opinion without resorting to insulting me. For instance, you say that I should "hit the books" if I'm stupid enough not to think heat has an impact on the workings of a hard disk. I'll let it slide that I never claimed that temperature has no effect on hard disks, but let me bounce that argument back at you. With the tolerances and engineering of hard disks, there will obviously be an optimal temperature where they function best. Make it too hot and things start to run out of tolerances, but this also happens if you make it too cold. If the disk is running at the optimal temperature the life will be longest.

Now how does this optimal temperature get so high? I suggest that it is because disk manufacturers measure hard disks performance in a 42 degree oven (in an effort to speed up it's aging). Makes sense that that this testing behavior actually steered hard disk tolerances to conform to this test methodology and thus that hard disks perform better around this 42 degree test temperature? Besides, leave a harddisk spinning in a standard case and it will reach a temperature of around 40 degrees on it's own (plus or minus 5 degrees or so). So from that observation it makes perfect sense that disks work best in that temperature range.

So we have:
- Google ran statistics on data on their 100,000 harddisks over years and found that the optimal operating temperature for a hard disk is around 40 degrees Celsius (on average)
- Google shows that cold disks actually break more often than slightly hot disks
- Google has the only reliable real life data/research on this subject either of us could find
- Google is a renowned organization and the people who performed the tests are well known scholars. Neither has a financial interest in telling people to stop cooling their disks.
- Both the test temperature at which reliablity tests are performed and the natural temperature that a hard disk will reach in a standard PC case is around this optimal temperature.
- Maybe most importantly, their findings simply make perfect sense

On the other hand we have ... well nothing actually:
- You had some disks fail that were searing hot. This complies with Googles findings and common sense that you should not run a disk outside of the manufacturer reported maximum temperature of around 55 to 60 degrees Celsius.
- You have had 8 disks running for 3 years with no disk failing. There is a calculated 52% probability of this happening so that's hardly a significant finding. Besides the test set is too small anyway.
- You have done no tests on different operating temperatures within hard disk operating limits. Let alone a test with hundreds if not thousands of disks to be able to get any significant findings. So you have no findings proving that Google's research is incorrect.

Again, temperature IS an issue with hard disks, but in a normal application there should not be a problem. On the other hand, if you modify your hardware in some ways, like for instance decoupling the disk to get rid of the noise, one should really keep an eye on the temperature since it might overheat the disk. I warned of this a few times already.
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