On Wednesday 12 November 2008, owens@netptc.net wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': >The conventional wisdom for hardware is called "infant mortality". >Most hardware failures occur during the first hundred or so hours of >operation. This is why good vendors typically burn the devices at >the end of manufacturing prior to shipment. And studies done it the last 5 years have thoroughly debunked this conventional wisdom, at least as far a hard drives are concerned. There's no "infant mortality rate" and no "bathtub curve". Chance of failure simply steadily increases with age. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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