Typical lifetime of 100GB+ drives

[chrisv]

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Thanks Ron, shame you didn't get to your punchline before I kill-filed you.

"Ron". LOL

 

[Rod Speed]

If the words in question have no special effect or impact,

Never said anything like that.

why use them?

Because I choose to. You get to like that or lump it.

We do tend to have a rather pungent turn of phrase.

One of our government ministers, after having had to attempt
to bullshit his way out of some predicament that his department
had got itself into rather spectacularly, when called on his bullshit
by a journalist, produced the immortal phrase 'sometimes in politics
you just have to eat a turd sandwich and pretend that its yummy'

I've always preferred the rather blunt anglo saxon words to
the fancy ones. Shit instead of excrement etc. **** instead
of fornicate. The word prat instead of something more fancy.

Silly little prats like Clarke dont like particular words ? His problem.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Never said anything like that.


Because I choose to. You get to like that or lump it.

We do tend to have a rather pungent turn of phrase.

Yup, no need to deny your ancestry, eh rodney.

 

[Shailesh Humbad]

Just to add my 2 cents to the "pathetically inadequate sample", I have
had a 120GB Western Digital for a year and a half it and it's been
working splendidly. By contrast, my brother had a hard drive death
machine, and practically all the large hard drives he installed in it
become corrupted and died. I attribute this not to the drives, but to
the fact that he had a cheap power supply, and he was running it off
the socket in a college apartment building that had frequent brownouts
and power swings with all the kids blasting their speakers and running
their blow driers. I convinced him to buy a line-conditioning UPS and
he has not had any problems since.