Is right that a good temperature to store the drive is between 20-30?
Considering drives idle for most of their life (talking home use here), the range you mentioned could be hard to achieve in a private
home environment. Your objective (IMHO) should be below 40 during scrubs/extended usage. There are some who believe that
below 30 for extended periods is not good either, however I don't see temps like that here so I ignore that condition.
My server is set up to email me (and it does) when ANY drive in the system hits 39 degrees. Usually when I get this warning, my
case is dusty and needs a cleaning. Once the filters are cleaned, temps go right back down again.
I recommend to anyone building a new server to learn how to set temp threshold reports with emailed warnings. Many forum
members are understandably quite fanatical about it and I live in this camp as well.