Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/05

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Subject: [Leica] Re: DVD failure
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Tue Jun 5 07:41:15 2007
References: <200706031154.l53BsMY0055169@server1.waverley.reid.org> <E2975FBA-B9AA-484B-B583-E54BE1F52978@optonline.net>
 
> Remember you can?t rely on hard drives. Despite the fact that the cost/GB
> is extremely attractive, drives do have a relatively high failure rate

Only if you leave them turned on. If you turn them off most of the time, 
only spinning them up sporadically, they will last a long time. The whole 
trick to using hard drives for long-term storage is to keep them in an 
airtight box and not in a computer.
Replies: Reply from denik at comcast.net (Dennis Kushner) ([Leica] Re: DVD failure)
 In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: DVD failure)