Re: [9fans] LSI Logic 53C1030 SCSI

2008-04-29 Thread dave . l
after that, there was no question that i would take all the SCSI drives for recycling. the SATA drives are much, much faster that the `fastest' of the old SCSI drives. ... and less likely to die. How old are those drives? My very vague rule of thumb is that the bathtub failure curve for

Re: [9fans] LSI Logic 53C1030 SCSI

2008-04-29 Thread Charles Forsyth
How old are those drives? My very vague rule of thumb is that the bathtub failure curve for most moving computer machinery rises steeply after at most about 5 years, so if they're already a few years old ... they varied: typically 7 or 8, some 10 to 15