That's interesting because my figures 15000 - 30000 hours is 2 - 4
years... that's fairly similar!
On 12 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
>
> >----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
> >Absender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Betreff: Re: Swap on raid
> >Empfänger: Dietmar Stein
> >Kopie-Empfänger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Datum: 12. Mai 1999 01:13
> >
> >
> > 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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> > >
> >
> > A.J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> >
> >
>
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