elliott-brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, it would seem the problem was a dying HDD!
>
> My SECOND Western Digital HDD has just died. I only bought it about 14
> months ago. I had another which died 14 months ago (replaced under
> warranty - it was a couple of months short of three years old).
>
> My machine is on 24/7, I do a fair bit of video editing and
> compositing (nothing that runs for days though) and I've had two power
> failures in the last 12 months. I find it a bit hard to imagine that
> this would cause a drive to fail at such a young age, no?
Did you buy the consumer drives, rated for operation 8/5 (or 16/5), or
the "enterprise", "server" or "RAID" drives, rated for 24x7 operation?
Most disk vendors have multiple lines and, at least in theory, might
well optimize the disks for one purpose or another in terms of lifespan.
So, yeah, it might contribute. Probably not, but it might.
Regards,
Daniel
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