On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
> And while the life of that drive may well be limited, I do expect
> 2-5 years service out of it since its mostly spinning 24/7/365 with a
> powerdown maybe once a month because something I did crashed or I'm
> changing hardware around, and that also exceeds the demonstrated life
> of a much more expensive DDS2 tape changer that I still had to fool
> with 2x weekly reloading the tape magazine.
Let's hope your (single) backup disk doesn't die together with your other
machines when something goes wrong with the power...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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