Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:24:08 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM, roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org, hasty@star-gate.com, peter@bonkers.taronga.com, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: Why IDE is bad Message-ID: <9503231824.AA13908@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <13728.795976471@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 23, 95 08:34:31 am
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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
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