On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 17:51 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> In my last post I was writing from memory, so some of the details were not quite
> accurate. For example, IBM is only (!) selling 70% of its HDD business to
> Hitachi, and the new business will be a Hitachi-IBM joint venture. Also, the
> recommended maximum usage for the new IBM drives is on average 11 hours per day
> (not eight as I had previously mentioned). But the fact remains: if the drives
> are reliable, why would IBM feel the need to do this? No other manufacturer
> does.
Because nobody with extended computing requirements would buy such a
device. It would not suit my needs because one of my computers runs 24/7.
It's my mail & news server and it also works for a distributed computing
project during idle time.
Do they say how long the 'recommended' rest between hours of operation
should be? Another 11 hours?
Ridiculous!
wobo
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