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Post #158,095 by Andrew Grygus 6/2/04 11:09:58 AM Reply	My customers ask how long a hard disk lasts. I tell them, "On average about 5 years, but that doesn't mean yours won't fail in 10 minutes". I also tell them that the one certainty is that it will fail. Because hard disks are now tail draggers (the heads actually contacts the disks while running) I expect life to be limited. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #158,124 by deSitter 6/2/04 1:08:12 PM Reply	What about laptop drives? It occurs to me I've never experienced a laptop HD failure. -drl
Post #158,134 by jbrabeck 6/2/04 2:06:01 PM Reply	Question back to you How long do you usually keep a laptop, and over that time, how long is it in use? Desktops are usually used more hours per day (My unscientic analysis - IOW made up on the spot ;-) )
Post #158,142 by Yendor 6/2/04 2:49:50 PM Reply	My main machine is my laptop So it's in use no less than 9 hours a day. And that's just when I'm at work, which requires 90 minutes on either side where it's not in use. But when I work from home, or on the weekends, it's on 24/7. And it just came back in January from Toshiba with a new hard drive and processor and mobo. -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #158,154 by folkert 6/2/04 3:35:52 PM Reply	Yeah, but NOW... NOW it has a problem With the Keyboard NOW... After a mixture of water, sucrose, cornsyrup and cola flavoring accidentally was used to umm "wash" the keyboard. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* I've decided to become a perfectionist. That way I'll have more reasons to hate people. Your recycled electrons annoy me. Please use new electrons.
Post #158,156 by Yendor 6/2/04 3:42:16 PM Reply	But that ain't got nothin' to do with the HD ...And I really need to get that fixed before the HOPE Ride... -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #158,137 by inthane-chan 6/2/04 2:19:20 PM Reply	Two. And that's just at my current job. One machine just came back from Toshiba today with a replacement... Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

And now this... - (lincoln) - (40) - June 2, 2004, 08:48:48 AM EDT

Mirrored drives. - (inthane-chan) - (18) - June 2, 2004, 08:56:01 AM EDT

Links on how to set one up? - (lincoln) - (11) - June 2, 2004, 10:59:04 AM EDT

For Win98? - (inthane-chan) - June 2, 2004, 11:14:12 AM EDT

Screw Win98 - (deSitter) - (9) - June 2, 2004, 01:07:20 PM EDT

Can't - (lincoln) - (8) - June 2, 2004, 02:37:38 PM EDT

That problem is easily enough solved... - (ben_tilly) - (3) - June 2, 2004, 02:53:56 PM EDT

But the solution will force me to abandon - (lincoln) - (2) - June 3, 2004, 11:52:48 AM EDT

But many of those program run just fine under DOSEMU or - (folkert) - June 3, 2004, 12:28:34 PM EDT

What will you do if THOSE machines crash? - (ben_tilly) - June 3, 2004, 02:40:20 PM EDT

Easy to upgrade. - (admin) - (2) - June 2, 2004, 03:09:12 PM EDT

Me? - (folkert) - (1) - June 2, 2004, 03:34:12 PM EDT

Not a problem here . . - (Andrew Grygus) - June 2, 2004, 09:26:43 PM EDT

Well, 2k then - (deSitter) - June 2, 2004, 05:44:18 PM EDT

RAID 0? RAID 1 - (lister) - (5) - June 2, 2004, 03:31:49 PM EDT

Nightly offsite backups. - (inthane-chan) - (4) - June 2, 2004, 05:37:57 PM EDT

Re: "offsite" - (altmann) - (3) - June 2, 2004, 07:34:46 PM EDT

Where do you find such stuff? And another thing... - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 2, 2004, 07:44:08 PM EDT

Product of a warped imagination, and Google to flesh it out. -NT - (altmann) - June 2, 2004, 07:49:10 PM EDT

Ah.. an understandable confusion - (Ashton) - June 2, 2004, 08:02:37 PM EDT

never put anything on a machine that you care about - (boxley) - June 2, 2004, 09:02:03 AM EDT

Remember all HD are measured in MTBF - (jbrabeck) - (7) - June 2, 2004, 10:36:24 AM EDT

My customers ask how long a hard disk lasts. - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - June 2, 2004, 11:09:58 AM EDT

What about laptop drives? - (deSitter) - (5) - June 2, 2004, 01:08:12 PM EDT

Question back to you - (jbrabeck) - (3) - June 2, 2004, 02:06:01 PM EDT

My main machine is my laptop - (Yendor) - (2) - June 2, 2004, 02:49:50 PM EDT

Yeah, but NOW... NOW it has a problem - (folkert) - (1) - June 2, 2004, 03:35:52 PM EDT

But that ain't got nothin' to do with the HD - (Yendor) - June 2, 2004, 03:42:16 PM EDT

Two. - (inthane-chan) - June 2, 2004, 02:19:20 PM EDT

From your description I see no evidence . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (10) - June 2, 2004, 11:13:41 AM EDT

My thoughts also. I'd check the power supply too ... -NT - (Another Scott) - June 2, 2004, 11:36:18 AM EDT

concur -NT - (deSitter) - June 2, 2004, 01:08:52 PM EDT

Don't know how to check DIMMs from DOS - (lincoln) - (4) - June 2, 2004, 02:43:59 PM EDT

MemTest86 and ... - (Another Scott) - (2) - June 2, 2004, 02:46:20 PM EDT

I've used MemTest86 - (lister) - June 2, 2004, 03:33:27 PM EDT

The newer KNOPPIX CDs have it as a boot option. -NT - (folkert) - June 2, 2004, 03:36:34 PM EDT

Actually, everything can be perfectly OK . . - (Andrew Grygus) - June 2, 2004, 09:07:23 PM EDT

So if Win98 crashed and the HD didn't crash - (lincoln) - (2) - June 3, 2004, 09:33:34 AM EDT

How I do this. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - June 3, 2004, 12:11:46 PM EDT

Thanks Andrew - (lincoln) - June 3, 2004, 02:26:38 PM EDT

Linux + ext3 - (pwhysall) - June 2, 2004, 11:46:55 AM EDT

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