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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:24:08 -0600 (CST)
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> > 4) writing the disk more may wear it out faster.
> 
> Now there's one for the books! :-)

With an 800,000 hour MTBF, I think that enough years will
have passed that even if I reduce the lifetime of the 
disk by 75%, I'll be too old and grey to care when it
dies.  (yes I am sure the original comment was to see if
we were all awake  :-)  but it's a good point).

... JG