From: Nils B. (Lemonbit) <ni...@le...> - 2007-01-16 17:59:57
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Timothy J. Massey wrote: >> Won't the frequent reformatting et al. wear out your hard drives >> pretty fast? > > How is a couple of formats going to wear out a drive? I did not go > into > further detail, but now I will: > > <snip> > > There were *so* many more problems in the article you linked than the > fact the drive had to rebuild daily: the fact that a desktop hard > drive > died after working for *years* in very high temperatures doesn't sound > very unreasonable, does it? The fact that someone depended upon > *that* > for their data storage is the problem, not the fact that the drive had > to spend an hour or two a day copying itself, in a nice, linear > non-seeking way. It's not like the drive would have stopped spinning > during that time... I'm sorry, reading this it feels like you think I was attacking you or your methods. I wasn't really, I was genuinely wondering. And well, it was just that I read that extreme story on TheDailyWTF the day before that made me think about it. And yes, I was thinking about low-level formats, but you're obviously not doing those every day. >> Network administrators who fear the command line... What is the world >> coming to, eh? > > A sad, but profitable, conclusion? I guess so. Nils Breunese. |