Spam: Re: /dev/sda slowly dieing??
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Tue Mar 1 19:02:22 UTC 2005
Fritz Whittington wrote:
> Is that 24/7/365? 3 years is 26,280 hours. In days of yore, good disks
> used to be rated for 50-100K hours
Actually, disks in servers that work 24/7 may easily last longer than
disks in desktops that are powered on/off daily. Spinup places lot of
stress on disk's mehanical parts. 50k hours if disk is used in desktop
is excellent. 50k hours for disk used in server should be something to
expect...
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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited
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