Do other people have opinions on the "Lifetime" MTBF of a harddrive... My
experience is about 15000 hours continuous operation.
I've seen manufacturers claim 300000 hours MTBF, but that's not realistic
in my experience... mabe 30000 in a more controlled environment with good
aircon etc....
Any other opinions?
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote:
> Hi
>
> Ok - I understand what you are meaning; I think we have just different
> opinions towards lifetime of a harddrive.
> Maybe, I will go on using only one disk for swap - but it is interesting
> seeing other opinions concerning lifetime of a hdd and security.
>
> Greetings, Dietmar
>
> Luca Berra wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:26:53PM +0200, Dietmar Stein wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > At work we got much HP-Workstations and -Servers; everyone got a
> > > swap-partition which is of same size as physical memory (or even
> > > bigger).
> > hp-ux uses swap partitions as a dump device, something i'd love
> > to see on linux systems sooner or later.
> >
> > anyway some swap space may be needed since there are process that allocate
> > tons of virtual memory, and they don't use it.
> > if the machine swaps occasionally i think it is acceptable
> > if i have to use swap i wan't it on a raid device.
> >
> > L.
> >
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