As jra at baylink pointed out, no IDE personal computer drive, from any manufacture, is designed to run 24x7x365. According to Seagate, a PS (personal storage) drive is only designed to be on for 8 hours a day, 300 days a year. This equates to 2,400 hours a year. A ES (enterprise storage) drive runs 8,760 hours on a 24x7x365 schedule. Those additonal hours increased the failure rate almost two-fold! "Past work comparing the reliability of PS against ES drives reported a filure rate of 25% for 24 IDE drives against 2% for 368 SCSI drives over an 18 month period. However, these numbers cannot be treated as a controlled sutdy due to the very small smaple size for the PS drives." ~ Seagate whitepaper
There's a very interesting read on this in a Seagate whitepaper (http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page � Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com
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