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radar_macgyver:
While a lot of attention is given to vibration and isolation thereof, temperature can have an adverse effect on drives too. Home enclosures often sacrifice airflow (and hence allow drives to get warmer) to reduce fan noise. I have seen drives that were exposed to higher temperatures fail faster (sample size was ~8 drives). I expect the reason is the bearings used will dry out faster at higher temps. The failure mode for all the drives was they simply stop responding on the SATA bus. These were run 24/7, and are 'enterprise grade' nearline SATA models (ST2000NM0033).
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