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| From: | Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? | ||
| Date: | Thu, 10 May 2012 12:56:06 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20120510125353.GX4493@ns1.bonedaddy.net | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? by Dale |
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| 1 | * Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> [120509 19:54]: |
| 2 | [..] |
| 3 | > Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for |
| 4 | > electronics life. The failure rate is high at the beginning, especially |
| 5 | > for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after |
| 6 | > several years it goes back up again. At the beginning of the curve, the |
| 7 | > thought was it could be a bad solder job, bad components or some other |
| 8 | > problem. At the other end was just when age kicked in. Sweat spot is |
| 9 | > in the middle. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | C. Gordon Bell has that curve in his book "Computer Engineering." |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Available online at: |
| 14 | |
| 15 | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer_Engineering/index.html |
| 16 | |
| 17 | for HTML and: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/CGB%20Files/Computer%20Engineering%207809%20c.pdf |
| 20 | |
| 21 | for the PDF. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Todd |