Hard Drives on longer than 8 hours

[Jonathan Claxton]

On Wed, 7 May 2003, foodog wrote:

> Don Calfa wrote:
> >
> > Found this to be troublesome.
> >
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=2789
> >
> > Can't find any more info about other drives failing.  Anybody know this
> > to be true for other brands?
>
> That's way beyond lame; I've never heard of a drive with any time
> limitation.
>

Aye, I got IBM SCSI drives that been running 24 hours day for close to two
years and never had a failure... Of course, these drives being 10K rpm,
really pays to have fans BLOWING on them to keep them cool really helps a
lot.