On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Tilman Schmidt
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 13.03.2012 19:46, schrieb [email protected]:
>> Markus Falb wrote:
>>> On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>>>> Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and
>>>> time consuming to verify.
>>>
>>> Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary.
>>>
>> Not that frequently.
>
> I beg to differ. Hard disk failures are by far the most frequent
> hardware problem I encounter at work.
Don't forget to scale that by the number of hard disks you have per
motherboard - they are probably also your most common component...
And in my experience those failures are clustered within the first few
months or out about 5 years.
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Les Mikesell
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