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Life expectancy of hard drives?
« on: April 28, 2008, 06:55:49 AM »
Hi All, As I have had a bad run of luck with magnetic media this month, (lost an 8.5GB Maxstor IDE HDD some weeks back, and just today a 2.1GB Quantum Fireball SCSI HDD) what is the average life expectancy of a hard drive? I just don't understand this run of luck, granted  both of these drives were pretty old, yet one of my oldest hard drives still works (a 540MB Quantum Maverick), I am using it now :-) the A500 it was attached to is long gone :-(  Sooo, what's the longest time you have had a hard drive keep working? Just curious.....

Oh, and an OT P.S. .... Anyone know how many hard drives the PSU in an A4000T could handle? (Toaster/Flyer setup BTW...)
Many Thanks   :-D
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Marc Frick
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A1200T / \'060, 256MB, CD-R, OS3.9
A4000 w/ WarpEngine / 82MB , OS3.1
A4000 16MB, OS 3.9
A1200 , \'030 / 10MB
A1200 (stock)

CD32 :)

...And a very sick 4000T