> Current hard drives have a warranty of up to 5 years. I take this as a > signal from the manufacturer that the failure rate rises significantly > after that time. Check out the bathtub curve on Wikipedia:
I had a hard drive with a 3 year warranty that I used for probably 2 years and let sit on the shelf for 5 or so. Picked it up one day, plugged it in, and everything was still there. Drive still worked great. Maybe that's abnormal, but I thought it was worth sharing. Greg /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
