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| Thread ID: 25995 | 2002-10-16 22:29:00 | death and hard drive | mark c (247) | Press F1 |
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| 89943 | 2002-10-17 21:09:00 | I do agree with your comments on the 500,000 hours being under idea conditions. However they didn't actually start testing them 57 years ago. They test them for maybe a month, analyse the wear and tear, and then enter that into a formula that gives you the MTBF. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 89944 | 2002-10-17 21:27:00 | ...Then, having tested the prototype created under ideal conditions go into mass production under less than ideal conditions. My mother-in-law had a kitchen clock that must have been close to 50 years old and still kept good time. These days such things are designed to be changed every 5 years max. I saw a stove the other day. Less than 10 years old with rust spots. I have one that was second hand 20 years ago and still going strong. The toaster was 2 or 3 years old. Too expensive to repair. The printer was about 2. Too expensive to repair. I have a couple of 486s floating round. 7 years old maybe? One maybe useful for a small project I have in mind but no longer useful for mainstream use. My first computer - an XT - had a 10Mb hard drive. Second hand 15 years ago. It may still work but would you use it? |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 89945 | 2002-10-18 19:23:00 | Hey many thanks everybody. Now I understand. :) | mark c (247) | ||
| 89946 | 2002-10-19 00:13:00 | "The hard drive cannot be recovered if they are going to replace it"? I've just had one replaced out of necessity and the data and applications on the old one fully recovered - without forensics. When I described the symptoms (particularly the noise it was making) the tech said "switch the machine off NOW and don't touch it. If you do, we may not be able to recover anything you haven't backed up, but I think we may have caught it in time." Replacement was essential (the disk was shot), but the data was NOT lost. Or maybe I was just VERY lucky. They gave me the old disk back in an antistatic bag (privacy obligations, I suppose); can anyone think of a use for it? :-) |
argus (366) | ||
| 89947 | 2002-10-19 01:22:00 | Take the cover off the disk enclosure. Disk drives are quite "pretty" pieces of technological art. | Graham L (2) | ||
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