I disagree. There's really no way of knowing how long a harddrive will last, some do less some last longer, unless the brand name has a history of bad harddrives. My point is I've seen 15 year old harddrives still working, I do have a few since I fix a lot of old macs, there's a lot of dead ones but there are some that are still good and in perfect shape. I had a Mac II with an LPS drive, and an SE/30. The Mac II drive was good but the one from the SE/30 was failing so I discarded it. I also have one MacCider external 200MB harddrive and another one to which the case is not identified. Both seem to be old. And I recently had two Mac II 40MB original drives that were working but I replaced them for larger size (meaning megabytes because these were huge) and they were in perfect shape, although pretty useless since what can you store in 40MB drive these days? 7.5 would take half of that.
Liliana Mike Kauspedas wrote: > This is a little off-topic, but... Hard drives have a life-span, it is > normally 5 years, they will eventually go bad. Back up as often as possible, > unless you don't care. The easiest way to back up is by getting a new drive, > (upgrade) and coping what you need oiver ot it and loading yer OS. This > applies to PC's, Mac's, even Jesus. > -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
