On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Benjamin Franz <jfr...@freerun.com> wrote:
>
>>> Why would you move disks around machines unless you're recovering them
>>> after a failure?
>>
>> Because I can. Why wouldn't you? Mine are nearly all in swappable
>> carriers and it is a lot faster to move them than to ship data any
>> other way.
>>
>
> Because you are wearing the machine's connectors out. They are rated to be
> *infrequently* changed out. When you do it on a regular basis it will just
> be a matter of time until they develop electrical/physical problems.
Source? The numbers I've seen are on the order of 50,000 insertions.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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