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On 06/26/2014 05:57 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Take care of the environmental factors, and statistics fall in your |
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> favour making the odds good you'll get the life you expect |
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Yep, but sometimes crap just fails for no reason whatsoever. As an |
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example, my old house had central A/C and never went above 23.5 C in the |
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summer and was typically 19 C in winter. All machines on their own UPS |
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boxes. Oddly enough most failures I've seen were from drives on 24x7 and |
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for whatever reason I had to shut them down and they would not power up |
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again. I still lost a quite a few drives there, regardless. |
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Computer hardware fails. I just say "shit happens" and move on. ;-) |
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Oh, and I make sure critical stuff is in more than two places. What I |
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consider critical is likely less than 5% of my total storage. |
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Dan |
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