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On 06.08.2012 12:14, Dale wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> What do you gain if you abuse your drive so hard that its |
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>> lifetime is severly impacted? |
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> That if it has a problem that will cause it to fail soon in it's |
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> life, then I can find it soon. Remember that curve about failures? |
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> I would like to get past that first part of the curve. Maybe by |
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> the time I get to the later part, I'll have another drive or some |
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> backup scheme. Most the failures I have read about in reviews for |
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> this drive were early or was just plain old DOA. Testing it will |
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> get me past that. I'd rather it fail before I get my data on it |
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> instead of after. |
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> I thought I posted why I wanted to do this in my first post. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Why not simply get you data on it and use it for about 2 weeks? Maybe |
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you should mirror important stuff to the old drive for that time. |
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After about 2 weeks of normal usage you should be well out of the |
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beginnig of that bathtub curve (I always had problems when copying |
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data to the new drive when I had a bad one, except DOA of course). |
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