[ale] hard drive reliability

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

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?  :)

> Greg

-derek

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