28 Nov
2010
28 Nov
'10
2:17 a.m.
On 27 Nov 2010 at 17:24, Eric Smith wrote:
Anecdotal evidence suggests that leaving a drive
non-operational for a
long time is bad, and that spinning it for a few hours a month may
actually extend its life.
Aw, and I was about to propose a modest wager. I have a system with
a 20-year old hard drive that gets powered up for a short time every
few months. Over the next, say, 3 years, I'm willing to pay you $20
for every time the drive doesn't spin up when powered on once each
month if you'd pay me $20 for every time it did.
That's probably not a bet you'd like to take, I'm guessing.
I have a lot of comparatively old equipment. It's not used a lot,
but it is used every so often.
It seems that many hard drives (care to buy a JTS hard drive?)
exhibit early mortality; survivors tend to keep plugging away if
given the juice every once in awhile.
--Chuck