On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': >Age matters. Drive either fail in the first 60 days, or last for the >full length of the design life. Except when they don't. As mentioned else where in the thread. This is an urban legend. Actual studies of large number of hard drives showed no "infant mortality rate" or "bathtub curve" which regards to failure rates. As a drive ages it's chance of failure steadily increases. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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