On 04.02.15 05:19, Russell Coker wrote:
What portion of hard drives survive 7 years of service?
Depends on how hard they're flogged, I guess. Those on my desktop are ten or twelve year old IDE jobs, but they only run about 4 hrs per day, spinning idly much of that time. It sounds like a good SSD would just about see me out. Incidentally, has anyone had trouble with the lurid red SATA cables from China? I haven't had mine long enough to experience any, but there are one or two claims of the copper corroding to powder after 3 years or so. (I've set "calendar" to prompt me annually, just in case that's the cause of future flakiness.) Erik -- Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future. - Niels Bohr