Hard Drives on longer than 8 hours

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Author: foodog
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Subject: Hard Drives on longer than 8 hours
Don Calfa wrote:
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> Found this to be troublesome.
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=2789
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> 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.

I've got DEC RZ26 and RZ28 drives at work that've been powered on for 10
years+. I'm phasing them out, but not in any particular hurry (RAID
0+1). IBM used to make *good* toys.

If you're looking for big IDE storage I've been very happy with 100GB
WD1000 drives.
Steve