Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:25:31 -0400 From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Fwd: Poll: How often do you upgrade your hard drive?]
There was just a discussion on the Finale list, and I was accused of being 'kinky' and 'abnormal' (among other things) for upgrading my hard drives on average every 18 months. They considered that very atypical behavior, and that a drive was typically 5 years in service. I've had 22 drives in 10 years on 3 machines; since 5 were replaced that became defective, that means my regular upgrade was 17 drives in 10 years. Unusual? Normal? Dennis == Subject: Re: Poll: How often do you upgrade your hard drive? From: Glennbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:57:11 -0400 I use em' until they they're full. Then I buy a bigger one and copy the old one to it. 18 to 24 months seems to be the cycle for me. Glennbo These go to eleven Non-Linear Sound http://www.soundclick.com/glennbo Hear My Music http://www.soundclick.com/jambits == From: "Martin Schiff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Poll: How often do you upgrade your hard drive? Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:23:54 -0400 I do the same as Glennbo, but sometimes I just add another drive and copy a bunch of stuff to it while leaving the original in place. BTW, I don't know if it is still on sale, but I got a Seagate 160 gig drive at CompUSA yesterday for $99 after instant and mail in rebates. Martin Listen to my music free at: http://www.mp3.com/starbirth Starbirth Music http://www.starbirthmusic.com == From: "Bob Beals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Poll: How often do you upgrade your hard drive? Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:40:48 -0700 Same here. 18-24 months MAX. Bob == From: "axtogrind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How often do you upgrade your hard drive? Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:25:33 -0400 Five years? Maybe for a machine that was never turned on. 18 to 24 months a new drive or drives (usually raid 0) show up, assuming the 'old' drives are still functioning. I say that because I'm still smarting over that damn IBM 75GXP that croaked after about six easy months. Piece of crap. atg == Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:17:35 -0500 From: Conley Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How often do you upgrade your hard drive? axtogrind wrote: > I say that because I'm still smarting > over that damn IBM 75GXP that croaked after about six easy months. Mine lasted a year. Never again, They gave me a 60G replacement that is still not in a computer. Peace, Conley Shepherd Joyful Noise Productions P.U.S.H. <>< <>< Listen to some Christian Rock at: http://www.mp3.com/shepherd Listen to Christian Rockz! MP3 Radio at: http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/55/christian_rockz.html == Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 06:22:11 +0200 From: edA-qa mort-ora-y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Poll: How often do you upgrade your hard drive? I try to avoid upgrading for the sake of upgrading. My old machine has had its drives for almost 5 years now. Now I'm in the habit of buying Firewire drives (as backup devices). But the quality of new drives is less than before, so I buy double and will replace them as they break (2-3 years). Since I keep full backups I don't have any fear of breakage, so I have no problem using my drive until it is dead. Shiva In Exile: Ethnic, World Ambient Solo album of Stefan Hertrich (Darkseed, Betray My Secrets) Now available! <http://trostlos.org/shiva/> edA-qa mort-ora-y Trostlos Records <http://trostlos.org/> == From: "Steve Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How often do you upgrade your hard drive? Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 03:08:16 -0400 Similar to Glennbo's approach. When it starts getting crouded I get a bigger one and then copy everything to the bigger one, and move the old one over to and other machine on the network, which is just for redundant backup or storage of old stuff that's also on CD. The oldest one I have is a segate 10gig ( 4 yrs ? ) Then an IBM 75gxp 30 gig 3.5 yrs or so. When my WD 1000BB started getting full I moved it over there also and got a WD 1200JB. Less than 2 yrs. on that one but the 1000BB is still fine. So I guess the "full service" time is about 3 yrs. to 2.5 yrs. to 2 yrs. but will probably be getting shorter as the cost of huge drives get more attractive. ( I hate loosin' any data ) Steve == From: "Tom Kemp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How often do you upgrade your hard drive? Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 06:29:11 -0400 With the lower price of drives...and CompUSA having it's special sale prices on 100-160GB drives...under $100....I filled up my studio computer....so I buy them and put 'em in Firewire cases for more space...and back them up as I can onto DVD. Hmm...I guess I end up getting a couple around Christmas time every year on average. Even now I'm thinking about rebuilding this whole system...moving the old pair of Internal 40GB drives into my file server/web server and installing larger drives....just cause. 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