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Titan2189 on Nov 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023

> ambient temperature within a data center often increases during the summer months

What? Isn't your Data Center supposed to be temperature controlled, where the A/C has a setpoint which it's keeping the entire environment to within a degree?

Being able to tell what season it is based on your HDD SMART temperature (armchair expert here) sounds bad.

brnt on Nov 14, 2023 [–]

Is moving the setpoint with the seasons, within tolerance of course, not a common energy savings method?

ska on Nov 14, 2023 | [–]

That makes more sense when you are housing people than servers, no?

brnt on Nov 15, 2023 | | [–]

Does it? Everybody wants to save energy. If the hardware can handle it, why not?

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