On Friday, December 17, 2010 05:15:04 am Philipp Überbacher did opine: [...] > I guess it really depends on what you try to achieve. Afaik the average > life-span of a HD is puny 2 years.
Some maybe. I have a 1Gb seacrate hawk I use on a TRS-80 Color Computer that is a good 15 years old, and I hooked up an old Quantum P40S beside it the other day that must be close to 18 years old. No bad sectors were found when I did a logical verify of the surface. > From what I heard the magnetic tapes > used by for example ESA a long time ago have a life-span of 80 years. If > 'store it good and forget' is what you're after then tape seems like a > good idea. That seems to be a recipe for disaster. Will there be a working tape drive to read those old tapes in even 40 years? Here, I use 4 1Tb drives as individual drives, 3 of which have individual installs on them, and the 4th is for amanda, doing nightly backups of whatever install I am running this year. With smartd running, I have been told far enough in advance of an impending drive failure that my email corpus has not been lost since early 2002. > As for my university, as far as I know they use some RAID system for > everyday and tapes for sensitive data. And they already had their whole > RAID fail at the same time. So have I observed. Twice that I know of at my former, and occasionally still, employers. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
