[ale] hard drive reliability

[Geoffrey Myers]

Pete Hardie wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 15:05, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>> So if your drive makes it for 2 weeks it'll last for a while?  :)
> 
> It will last until just before you need to restore from it, or just
> before you make a backup of it?

Especially the day you just finished a 12 hour coding marathon...

> 
> :)
> 
>>> Greg
>> -derek
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