civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Experience is that a cooling fan extends the life of IDE HDDs by quite a lot.
> Where I used to replace one a year, I have been running one for 2 years with
> a fan and it is still working.
wow, one per year? How many hard drives are active? (in other words, is this
one per year out of 2 drives, for a failure rate of .5/year (or 2 year drive
lifetime, avg) or 1 per year out of 100 drives (for 100 year drive life!)
(I've got, lets see... 4 in that box, 4 in the firewall, 1 in my laptop,
and now 2 in my sparc linux box. We won't count the scsi drives that I
don't use as much right now, but that would add 3-4 more... And I usually
replace drives because of needing more space, not failures. But I *have*
had one scsi drive apparently go bad (plus one dropped from the desk to
the floor - WHILE SPINNING - Dead On Arrival at the floor ;-) Of course,
when I take a drive out of one machine because of upgrading to bigger drive
I usually move the smaller drive to another machine... Hmm, lifetime.. hmm ;-)
rc
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