On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 05:30 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > 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.
Ok, my 40MB SCSI Seagate for the Atari is ok for more than 20 years, heavy usage, several startups a day. Sometimes I need to start it 2 or 3 times, but than it's ok. > > > 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? For analog tapes Dirk Brauner had Telefunken machines that are as old as you are and they were better than a lot of modern machines ;). > 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
