On Monday, October 25, 2010 10:10:43 am Leslie Newell did opine: > In my experience hard drives that are kept running continuously often > last longer than ones that are started and stopped on a regular basis. > > Les I'll second that thought. I have a 1Gb seagate Hawk scsi drive running on a trs-80 Color Computer 3, that probably has about 15 years of running timer on it. Probably 300 reboots, but only 100 or less power downs in that time.
That drive was originally the boot drive in an amiga A2k back in the early 90's. > On 24/10/2010 10:38, Ian W. Wright wrote: > > Dell, replaced with Intel, and now Kingston... - He does use > > the machine quite intensively, 16 - 18 hours a day but I > > have cheap hard drives running in desktops which have been > > on permanently for over 4 years now so I would have expected > > much better. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North > America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers > in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 > devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web > Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Many are called, few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
