[ale] hard drive reliability

[Pete Hardie]

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?

:)

>
>> Greg
>
> -derek
>
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