From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SSSuc-0008Uy-8i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 12:56:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59A25E0965; Thu, 10 May 2012 12:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns1.bonedaddy.net (ns1.bonedaddy.net [70.91.141.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEFEE087C for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 12:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns1.bonedaddy.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.bonedaddy.net (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4ACrrjG013834 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 08:53:54 -0400 Received: (from tgoodman@localhost) by ns1.bonedaddy.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q4ACrrIk013833 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 08:53:53 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: ns1.bonedaddy.net: tgoodman set sender to tsg@bonedaddy.net using -f Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:53:53 -0400 From: Todd Goodman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? Message-ID: <20120510125353.GX4493@ns1.bonedaddy.net> References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> <20120509112543.6021e1f8@khamul.example.com> <4FAA3E79.5010007@gmail.com> <20120509232806.495276ed@khamul.example.com> <4FAAEEB4.6090800@gmail.com> <4FAB0291.5050602@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FAB0291.5050602@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: d85ccc0a-d347-4b20-9e55-01998e75917b X-Archives-Hash: 6d246251b5cbb82d386e265c165d6e4c * Dale [120509 19:54]: [..] > Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for > electronics life. The failure rate is high at the beginning, especially > for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after > several years it goes back up again. At the beginning of the curve, the > thought was it could be a bad solder job, bad components or some other > problem. At the other end was just when age kicked in. Sweat spot is > in the middle. C. Gordon Bell has that curve in his book "Computer Engineering." Available online at: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer_Engineering/index.html for HTML and: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/CGB%20Files/Computer%20Engineering%207809%20c.pdf for the PDF. Todd