On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Benjamin Franz <jfranz at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com