12 Aug
2002
12 Aug
'02
11:41
At 13:40 12/08/2002 , Basil Fowler said: <snip>
The only change that occurs during a hit is that the sensor arm may have to move. As the actuation of the sensor arm has no moving parts (purely magnetic) the chances of wear are negligible.
Most wear takes place on spin-up.
I don't really think that you have much to worry about. <snip>
Quite agree Basil - I've got a 7 year old server with raid5 array and those disks have been hammering away, 24 hours a day for the last 7 years non-stop. Seems array controllers access drives more often than either Linux or windoze. rgds, Tony