[GDS|Entropy] wrote:

> It seems HDDs like to fail after about 2yrs of 12+hr a day use. Boooo!

Really? You have far worse luck than me...

I had 5 servers containing a grand total of 19 harddrives. That setup 
ran for quite a while without any failures at all. Indeed, some of the 
servers here ran for 8 years or so with 0 failures out of 4 drives.

So many server-class Ultra320 SCSI drives are made of stronger stuff 
than normal desktop drives. (Certainly they have a price tag several 
times higher...)

Amoung all the computers I've been called on to fix, I can once again 
count the number of drive failures on one hand. (Laptops do seem to fail 
somewhat more often.)

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