Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/23

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Subject: [Leica] Hard drives
From: lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:22:23 -0500
 
Hard drives have a limited life span. Compared to floppy discs they 
hold a phenomenal amount of information but because they contain moving 
parts they wear out. For me drives last about two years of reasonably 
hard use. I have had about five drive failures in assorted equipment in 
the last ten years. Surprisingly constant use does not appreciably 
alter the failure rate. The lubricants dry up in a stored drive almost 
as fast as they do in a spinning one. According to my friends in the 
computer industry, solid state storage is the way to go, The other day 
I bought a 120 GB high speed thumb drive for about $50 at a computer 
store. If Edward Snowdon could store years of CIA and diplomatic 
messages on a cheap thumb drive I guess it is good enough for my 
pictures.
Larry Z
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