Again, you missread the situation here. We're not talking about jumping on a water bed with cleats. We're talking about putting a 250 pound object on the bed to determine if its going to explode once you put the full weight of a person on it. Much better to have the bed explode now, while (a) you're not on it, and (b) you're awake to clean it up as opposed to 2 hours into your first trial sleep. Accept that with the case of computer hardware, the times here are more spread out. Stress test a disk when you get it and it'll fail now, when you've got the case open and a backup two feet away, as opposed to six months later, when you're neck deep in your tax audit or in the middle of your doctoral thesis when its already midnight and the aforementioned backup is out of your reach (not that it'll matter anyway, cause that mission-critical data's toast).
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Rivard" <wee1s...@fidnet.com> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 1:44 PM To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last I still don't see the logic of purposefully abusing hardware to insure it's durability. I would never jump onto a new water bed while wearing football cleats to make sure that is resistant to puncture. It would be my own fault if a flood occurs. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
