I disagree too. My Western Digital has a mean time between failures specified at one million hours. (That's 24hrs x 365 days x 114 years)
I think Mike is basing his hard drive life expectancy number on a very small set of data, like the sum of all hard drives he has owned in his life. You have to look at a much bigger population of drives to draw any meaningful statistics. Joe > From: Liliana Velazco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. > > 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
