Spam: Re: /dev/sda slowly dieing??

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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