Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:18:17 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>, 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: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950323151619.13833B-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9503231824.AA13908@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > > 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). I did once see someone wipe a disk clean, by doing continuous read/write/read cycles on it. The first disk went in 3 months, then three months later the second disk (and the programmer, by the way) went. So I think it can happen, but probably not with the kinda load we see. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.SUN.3.91.950323151619.13833B-100000>