> On or about 2005-03-01 04:02, Hacksaw whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and > scribbled: > >>>must be 2-3 years old...i think about changing the disk in this case... >>> >>> >> >>That's too bad. That's a young disk in my view of things. I have a 9Gig scsi >>disk that has been going since Redhat 6.2. >> >>Good luck. >> >> > Is that 24/7/365? 3 years is 26,280 hours. In days of yore, good disks > used to be rated for 50-100K hours, but I suspect in the last few years > the design life has gone down with the prices. In 3 years, price cut in > half, capacity doubled, speed doubled (or at least increased a lot). > Getting to where you just treat disks like tires on your car and replace > them as needed.... > > -- > Fritz Whittington > "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." -- Al Capone > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list yes, it is 24/7/365. But we should always be clear, that there can also be a kind of "monday-model", and it depends also on stocking (i have no climatized room for 5 servers!) not just on cars, also on harddisks... Roger
