** Gordon Scott <gordon@???> [2013-10-14 17:44]:
> On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 16:23 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
> > ** Anton Piatek <anton@???> [2013-10-12 21:54]:
> > > I don't trust hard drives as it seems most of mine
> > > die sooner or later.
> > ** end quote [Anton Piatek]
>
> Of course; They all die sooner or later. I guarantee it, possibly
> excepting if they get retired first, and even then, many will still run
> on to extinction in the third world.
True, but they aren't what they used to be, largely I suspect due to the
tighter tollerences of the higher capacities. For example, I have a 120M drive
in my old Amiga that still works (well did last time I used it, but that was
only a couple of years ago), as well as an 80M drive in my old 386 laptop that
still boots, and a few 250M to 500M drives I still have in a box of drives to
scrap that survived a DBan earlier this year. All these have had solid daily
use over their primary phase of ownership (even if they have been retired or
stored for now). At the same time I've had several 500G drives die after just
over a year.
> > I'm with you on the distrust of hard drives, and I'm even more uncomfortable at
> > this point with SSD drives.....
>
> Trusting any of these completely will eventually burn fingers.
>
> I never cease to be amazed at just how reliable HDDs are. They sit there
> spinning away at 5000 to 10,000 rpm for years on end, with tiny
> mechanical heads flying (literally, using ground-effect) back and forth
> over them in milliseconds, and they just keep on going ... for ages.
> But not for ever.
Having done shock and vibration testing on HDs in the past, both when
functioning and with the heads parked I am quite astounded what they can take -
especially when you open one up and see just what it is like inside!
** end quote [Gordon Scott]
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