On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
>   And while the life of that drive may well be limited, I do expect 
> 2-5 years service out of it since its mostly spinning 24/7/365 with a 
> powerdown maybe once a month because something I did crashed or I'm 
> changing hardware around, and that also exceeds the demonstrated life 
> of a much more expensive DDS2 tape changer that I still had to fool 
> with 2x weekly reloading the tape magazine.

Let's hope your (single) backup disk doesn't die together with your other
machines when something goes wrong with the power...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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