Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)]

Timothy J. Massey wrote:

Won't the frequent reformatting et al. wear out your hard drives
pretty fast?

further detail, but now I will:

<snip>

There were *so* many more problems in the article you linked than the

died after working for *years* in very high temperatures doesn't sound

for their data storage is the problem, not the fact that the drive had
to spend an hour or two a day copying itself, in a nice, linear
non-seeking way.  It's not like the drive would have stopped spinning
during that time...

How is a couple of formats going to wear out a drive? I did not go into fact the drive had to rebuild daily: the fact that a desktop hard drive very unreasonable, does it? The fact that someone depended upon *that*

I'm sorry, reading this it feels like you think I was attacking you or your methods. I wasn't really, I was genuinely wondering. And well, it was just that I read that extreme story on TheDailyWTF the day before that made me think about it. And yes, I was thinking about low-level formats, but you're obviously not doing those every day.

Network administrators who fear the command line... What is the world
coming to, eh?

A sad, but profitable, conclusion?

I guess so.

Nils Breunese.

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