On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:53:59PM -0600, Gregory Hill wrote: > > Argh. The whole power supply thing was me wondering aloud if there's > some correlation, which apparently was misunderstood to mean I was sure > that having a good power supply was the solution. That wasn't my > intention; sorry for the confusion. My real point was that for a home > user, having to replace "10 hard drives in a year" is exaggerated. So, > I wondered what other factors might be causing him to have such frequent > failure, and the whole power supply thing dawned on me as a possibility. > And it turned out he was talking about at an ISP while I was referring > to home use. >
Ok. 10 hard drives in a year is _obviously_ more than a normal home user will have to worry about. However, I've had at least 5 hard drives at home go bad in about 15 years with an average of 3 drives being used at any given time. That's not _terrible_, but it's enough that I definitely don't trust disks. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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