WDC Reds Not Suitable?

InteXX wrote:
StephenB wrote: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gurumurthi/papers/acmtos13.pdf finds that disk failures increase as temperature rises. Per Table 3, disks that run at 40C or more fail at a higher rate. Disks running at 50C fail about 1.50 higher rate more often than drives that are < 40C.

Good gosh, how do you find these things? Did you go a-searchin' just for this topic or is it something you already had on hand?

I recently linked to this article in one of my posts about fan control as well:
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=79560

Quote from the article:
"In summary, we see that average temperature h as a strong correlation to disk failures at different locations in side chassis, rack and across datacenter floor.
However, we do not observe a significant correlation between variations in temperature and disk failures".

So... If I read this correctly, It is more important to keep your drives at a constant temperature than "as-cool-as-possible".
I stand by my argument however that 50c is too higher for a HDD which states a max op temp of 55c.