Greg Freemyer wrote:
We do disk recovery as part of our services. Our experience is that most failures are in the electronics of the drive, not the mechanical part.
I second that.
If you read the Google whitepaper on disk drive reliability, they conclude that disk drives fail independent of disk usage, so I really think the conceptual idea of having a limited number of disks writes is a very minor issue compared with drives failing just because electronics routinely fail after a period of time.
Harddrives, electronically and mechanically have been designed with a certain lifetime in mind. Designing for a certain MTBF is a fairly exact science, much more so today than e.g. 20 years ago. Which is why my 40Gb IDE drives failed roughly when I expected them to, whereas my older 6.4Gb drives just keep going and going. /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org