[Titan2189]

> 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]

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

[ska]

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

[brnt]

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