Re: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow?

Mark Hahn (hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca)
Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:10:22 -0500 (EST)


> >Please consider picking up a modern drive and see it has a "THREE" (3)
> >Year warranty period which is about the length of service for a continuous
> >run device on the MTBF.
>
> 3years is ~27k hours. The MTBF on modern drives is more like 57years.
> (500k hours.) 100k hours is 11+ years. No ide drive ever manufactured
> will last that long. (Maybe if it's sitting on a shelf for 90% of its life.)

just say what you mean: IDE condemns your soul to eternal damnation!

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