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Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle
My PCs are on all of the time and I expect the drives to last a lot more than 24 months. Some of my older hardware has drives that are at least 12 years old and still working fine!
At the millennium, one of my major clients chose to power down all of its servers and reboot after midnight. My other clients chose to leave their servers running. After the reboot, a number of drives (only about six, as I recall, out of hundreds in multiple RAID arrays) failed because the heads stuck to the landing zone on the platters due to the build-up of grime forced onto the LZ by centrifugal force over many years of running. These would have mostly been top spec. SCSI drives in Sun servers and high end IDE drives in HP or Compaq machines not low end consumer drives in desktop PCs.
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I was referring specifically to "RTÉ International" the proposed television channel which has been "Coming soon ..." to cable, DTT and satellite viewers in the UK for years.
Links:-
RTÉ International
RTÉ International: It’s coming sooner than we think |
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there abig difference in the old hard disk and the new ones and it down the platter and how they rea and write, dnt forgot back then you are probally talk ide33 or ide 100 now oyoua re talkign sata 3000 tehre a vast differnece int eh speed and or factors new drives fail within 2 years you can get them lastign 5 years or 3 monhts but genreally it 2 years that wh comanies use raid and they dnt byuy the disk at the same tiem they stagger them so it mostly only one will fail if you are really paranoid you go with RAID60
but the drives are different and if you tkae it back to when they where out the PVR drive was dearer same now but not by much as the above user pointed out but we dnt knwo the hard disk geting used