Hi
experience has shown that the disks in our HP machines live for round about 2 years
minimum and 5 years maximum, operating day by day.
The air condition within the machines is very different and belongs to the
surrounding; but I haven't seen any differences between the MTBF of hot and cold rooms
(maybe they are to close to each other here).
Mostly (the data disks) start to have read and write errors, which increase from week
to week.
Greetings, Dietmar
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> Do other people have opinions on the "Lifetime" MTBF of a harddrive... My
> experience is about 15000 hours continuous operation.
>
> I've seen manufacturers claim 300000 hours MTBF, but that's not realistic
> in my experience... mabe 30000 in a more controlled environment with good
> aircon etc....
>
> Any other opinions?
>
>
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Ok - I understand what you are meaning; I think we have just different
> > opinions towards lifetime of a harddrive.
> > Maybe, I will go on using only one disk for swap - but it is interesting
> > seeing other opinions concerning lifetime of a hdd and security.
> >
> > Greetings, Dietmar
> >
> > Luca Berra wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:26:53PM +0200, Dietmar Stein wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > At work we got much HP-Workstations and -Servers; everyone got a
> > > > swap-partition which is of same size as physical memory (or even
> > > > bigger).
> > > hp-ux uses swap partitions as a dump device, something i'd love
> > > to see on linux systems sooner or later.
> > >
> > > anyway some swap space may be needed since there are process that allocate
> > > tons of virtual memory, and they don't use it.
> > > if the machine swaps occasionally i think it is acceptable
> > > if i have to use swap i wan't it on a raid device.
> > >
> > > L.
> > >
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