[ale] hard drive reliability

[Greg Freemyer]

I changed the subject to not stop your main thread, but your comment:

> Before you folks say anything, this is quite a new Hard drive, may be 1.5
> year old, very light use.  So bad hard drive is ruled out.

Is highly mistaken.

We purchase a fair number of new hard drives each year and I can
assure you that the assumptions inherent in the above are wrong.

We see very little DOA, but lots of infant mortality.  I would _guess_
the most likely time to have one of the new generation high density
drives fail is in the 20 to 200 hr time frame.

Greg

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