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 1SSIa9-0008Il-AQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:54:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4641E07F0; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BB1E07C3 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbrr13 with SMTP id rr13so1560556pbb.40 for ; Wed, 09 May 2012 18:52:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=IrxNKpTeBXDaUWnHyYiJmNEwHuT395Ui1mDqivKp9iM=; b=xxOnNC84vJaJotOmuY/YM+2JPcKVaTzjG1iHdV2GQP9TZQ1KljIUNmYu8N1MPfwMZF dR17QJ217xxL/IESwuH/dS0wUxA5t/NBq79NxsDwjgF8EI5hP1H2mH/lWJBsdx5lCfEy 3LM5BjcO9bDXOy0iUHCxN0UHlHa6B/muQmbtic9HOZ0UzIdjvRRK5BUhPRF+bUPsVcsb C/xg+1DqDsgH4CBi26mZQPLAb/zNHK1m1VDSvZiB7Ai8d3icg3QM7rtQy3X/VEHy39/Y ly3pHgc8rDd0lbUOLit/sjvWphq7lcZCng9FnnLDjd3WGv6y8s/4+a2ZjScNvgWUt4kK 5Ukg== 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 Received: by 10.68.136.69 with SMTP id py5mr14975497pbb.115.1336614760486; Wed, 09 May 2012 18:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.39.227 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2012 18:52:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:52:40 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? From: Adam Carter To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8ee0e4b6-6011-4506-8a49-5664eada3782 X-Archives-Hash: cf64d18a7a1bb8c93039188d279b30b3 >> Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for >> electronics life. =A0The failure rate is high at the beginning, especial= ly >> for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after >> several years it goes back up again. That concept is much more general than just electronics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve