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On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 01:44:23 PM Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> >> ANY hard drive can fail the day |
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> >> after you buy it, a month after you buy it, and so on, though |
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> >> obviously the probability of a particular drive failing at any point |
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> >> in time may vary by what you pay for it. |
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> > or if it was meant to be used the way you use it. |
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> Like I said, I'm certainly interested in any actual data that supports |
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> that drives sold to run 24x7 last any longer than desktop drives when |
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> run 24x7. |
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Not hard data, but while still using desktop drives, I had a drive failure on |
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average once or twice a year. Now with enterprise 24x7 drives, the failure |
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rate has dropped to 1 in the past 3 years. |
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That is, for both, using proper UPS equipment. |
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Additionally, I noticed a definite speed increase after switching to |
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enterprise disks. |
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