On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Simon Wistow <si...@thegestalt.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 05:33:29PM +0000, Dave Cantrell said: > > My old LaCie drives worked just fine 24 hours a day for years. I'll be > > Quite Pissed Off my the WD things can't do the same. > > The MyBook ran mostly on for a couple of years but I think it was the > strain of copying over all the data. Maybe. I'd say you were just unlucky, or the thing got beaten about in transit or had a lot of power cycling stress. Service life of a drive is 3+ years normally and failure rates around 2yrs would be in the order of <<10% of drives under continuous, heavy load.
