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 1MqzZi-0002hc-1I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:26:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F464E0851; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f202.google.com (mail-yw0-f202.google.com [209.85.211.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86124E0851 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh40 with SMTP id 40so2408011ywh.32 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:26:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pDkHE5CVYxRd7Y47DJEbM/EPlausaTqC+r8W00cUBUs=; b=xsFjUDKu/yEg963VnwSEGDC2t2EC4gUe9+Qhm9LCJM2qiIXgb/N3oeupwamNY6cMBK j1+W1SYJJG+0m+ROPXEJP5QR87fZUn6w9A+o+GnBYAMs6fhE7nRfZnHCSW6/QBCvsBTy RRxGmNOjRSb6ZB+7oEv/6pGMvttilcO1j9Z7o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=an7MILBJ8Ckuu3mbhPzskYjq4jeWrbIutymADpgrok48wYN9nmqtOQlnpyys0raImZ DbYXEquMquZ+JocG/RojpVNbp8QMtag9P5kLfiMcna2EgK8h4Pjqm/AVw9tkqYDCwASE 5OxtCnSA6BgfLwKglaZjfCDwNabzXSE8esMxw= Received: by 10.91.26.23 with SMTP id d23mr384379agj.36.1253841976147; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-147-230-180.jan.bellsouth.net [72.147.230.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm30111agd.43.2009.09.24.18.26.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ABC1C34.6030101@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:26:12 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. References: <4ABAE27E.8070400@gmail.com> <4ABAFFCF.1060204@badapple.net> <4ABBBD7A.1050004@gmail.com> <58965d8a0909241202j21b66a0co6f488245700daf99@mail.gmail.com> <4ABBC4FA.207@gmail.com> <58965d8a0909241221l406b5d62i442ee680efd7caa7@mail.gmail.com> <4ABBC893.9020701@gmail.com> <4ABC15EB.50105@gmail.com> <4ABC1A43.9070009@badapple.net> In-Reply-To: <4ABC1A43.9070009@badapple.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 950d1eab-fc09-4f2f-9110-a85d96ae1db5 X-Archives-Hash: 13db887f5f6dde0a4aaf17b12bcb4b34 kashani wrote: > Dale wrote: >> I also remember this from way back when I was working on puters. I got >> a new job when winder 3.1 came out. Anyway. If a electronic device can >> survive the first couple to six months of usage, they usually last a >> while from the electronic point of view. That is short of spilling your > > Yep, it's been studied and even has a a fun name. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve > > kashani > > That would be it. You think about this tho. A hard drive has two things going against it. Electronic failure or mechanical failure. Mechanical usually happen with age, USUALLY. Electronics mostly fail at the beginning of life, USUALLY. There are exceptions to all this of course. So if one doesn't get it at the beginning, the other gets it in the end. :/ Weird huh? Can't win either way. Maybe we need a 60 day burn in period before being sold. That should help a little at least. Dale :-) :-)