14 Mar
2012
14 Mar
'12
1:23 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Tilman Schmidt t.schmidt@phoenixsoftware.de wrote:
Am 13.03.2012 19:46, schrieb m.roth@5-cent.us:
Markus Falb wrote:
On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and time consuming to verify.
Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary.
Not that frequently.
I beg to differ. Hard disk failures are by far the most frequent hardware problem I encounter at work.
Don't forget to scale that by the number of hard disks you have per motherboard - they are probably also your most common component... And in my experience those failures are clustered within the first few months or out about 5 years.
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