On Sun, 19 May 2002 10:07:23 +0200
Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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!
Kind of reminds me of a line from User Friendly when the Marketing Guy
said "But down time is good for servers, it gives them a chance to
rest!!!" He was speaking about a product from Washington State when he
said that of course.
>
> wobo
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