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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] LSI Logic 53C1030 SCSI
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:50:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a02e7fd88c2e92decd46502bba0cca1@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDF9A020-8972-4CE0-AA0A-3B966E7C54E2@mac.com>

> How old are those drives?
> My very vague rule of thumb is that the bathtub failure curve for most
> moving computer machinery
> rises steeply after at most about 5 years,
> so if they're already a few years old ...

they varied: typically 7 or 8, some 10 to 15




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-27 11:46 David du Colombier
2008-04-27 15:44 ` erik quanstrom
2008-04-27 18:24   ` Charles Forsyth
2008-04-29 11:17     ` dave.l
2008-04-29 11:50       ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2008-04-29 23:46         ` dave.l

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