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Subject: Re: [9fans] LSI Logic 53C1030 SCSI
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Bet they weren't spinning all that time.

Interestingly,
no matter what the manufacturers claim,
the small amount of real-world research I have seen,
as well as my own experience,
still says "5 years" for disk drives.

Also, as you say, the same timescales render them obsolete
in terms of storage and speed anyway.

DaveL

On 29 Apr 2008, at 12:50, Charles Forsyth wrote:

>> 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
>
>

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