-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2013-08-26 a las 08:17 -0400, Anton Aylward escribió:

Carlos E. R. said the following on 08/26/2013 07:35 AM:

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Make a wall clock with the dish:-)

The innards have good magnets for your fridge.

That so? I have a small, laptop, unit that I watn to dissassemble :-) I suppose you mean the motor. But i would like to use the motor as motor for something... - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlIbT1AACgkQja8UbcUWM1wRtQD+IZ9YdztQJzRr+IGAo0zcQ0kG 9ON28zv/LcBH/AqliyMA/3UHFCATrVm2LxFlAvVbQwo/XtFxuVTZKpp3Pgu8GA3U =MJ1M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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El 2013-08-26 a las 08:17 -0400, Anton Aylward escribió:

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Carlos E. R. said the following on 08/26/2013 07:35 AM:

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Make a wall clock with the dish:-)

The innards have good magnets for your fridge.

That so? I have a small, laptop, unit that I watn to dissassemble :-)

I suppose you mean the motor. But i would like to use the motor as motor for something...

No, they are standalone magnets and much better than in a typical motor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXLWWNzt4c

Greg

This is a better video, but it uses a vice to separate the magnet from the backing, so you should watch both. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttcLQgTLC8M Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2013-08-26 a las 10:26 -0400, Anton Aylward escribió:

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That so? I have a small, laptop, unit that I watn to dissassemble :-)

I suppose you mean the motor. But i would like to use the motor as motor for something...

That too, but on the drives I take apart there always seem to be this flat chunks of metal that are highly magnetic.

I'll have a look. And at those videos when I get back home, thanks. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlIbafIACgkQja8UbcUWM1wbtgD/cT0oZV52ItZjcNx5pXpTwyyM 1JyfO8gv75QXtNzoOeEA/RYsXCsJbBPP7VMm+ew7Pnlkb9bcY+OLumVw5cBP7m+8 =Sw69 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2013-08-26 a las 17:46 -0400, Cristian Rodríguez escribió:

El 24/08/13 13:52, Dylan escribió:

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Hi all,

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Error 14 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11871 hours (494 days + 15 hours)

btw.. which brand and model is this so we spare ourselves the pain and avoid buying it ? 494 days is a pretty pathetic lifetime if this is a drive with a regular usage pattern..

Not really. 500 days of continous use, or several years of intermitent use. Look at the hours, a home disk of 12000 hours is suspect for replacement. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlIcrUsACgkQja8UbcUWM1y/AAD/Xix+66Myoz5basvzJoAhlQkb APjWGZKIzuKyA+CEQ44A/1rWz1N3Jo54Yx7kAmvwaiqeO5zBhCEMy6vCwRZMrUCM =Of6h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Malcolm wrote:

Hi I have WD RE3 disks of over 36K Hours, purchased 10 years ago and still running fine, worth the extra few dollars for the enterprise versions...

You're lucky. RE means "raid edition". In a raid array if you have a bad sector you want the drive to fail fast so the raid sub-system can quickly get the data from another drive. Thus you need the firmware to try a sector only once or twice before it gives up and fails. (Each try involves a full revolution or about 9 msecs with a 7200 RPM drive) For a standalone drive, you want that drive to retry and retry and retry in the hopes it can get a good read. It can spend many seconds doing retries before it finally fails a single sector. That's hundreds of retries. The net result of the above 2 criteria is that a RE drive is less reliable than a standard drive, but it is a better choice for a raid array none-the-less. Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org