Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]GREG LORENZO asked: > How long do hard drives last? The obvious answer is "it depends what you do with them"! I run a large computer cluster at work which includes some big NetApp servers where the many hundred hard disks are hammering away continuously 24 hours a day. We replace one disk out of perhaps three hundred roughly once a month. We also have some older servers that see a less harsh life and are still running happily after 6 or 7 years. SCSI disks however seem more reliable than IDE as the older IDE disks are failing after around 4 years of moderate use. If it's a disk in a desktop PC that gets turned on for 4 hours a day and then turned off again, I would expect it (on average) to outlive the usefulness of the PC by some considerable margin. Simon. ---- Message sent via Totalise Webmail - http://www.totalise.co.uk/