In a previous article, "Peter Duniho" said:
Conventional hard drives ought to lose very little lifetime up to about
10,000', and even beyond that it's not like high-altitude flight is going to

I know a person who runs a data center for an observatory on Mauna Kea.
Some of the computers are up the mountain at 10,000'+, and most are down
at the bottom at near sea level. She reports no observable difference in
lifetime for hard disks up the mountain versus down the bottom.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
The only sensible way to estimate the stability of a Windows server
is to power it down and try it out as a step ladder.
-- Robert Crawford