30 Sep
2011
30 Sep
'11
6:43 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Benjamin Franz jfranz@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.
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Les Mikesell
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