Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> I would really like to see hard drives made to be more reliable, rather than
> just bigger.
I'm not sure that can be improved enough to matter. A failure of an
inexpensive part once in five years isn't a big deal other than the side
effects it might cause, and unless they can be 100% reliable (probably
impossible) you have to be prepared for those side effects anyway.
> I want reliable storage.
Run mirrored hot-swap drives. If one dies, replace it at some convenient
time, sync it up and keep going. I have one machine last booted in
mid-2003 that has had a couple of it's drives replaced that way.
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Les Mikesell
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