[OM] Re: CD, DVD lives, July 2005

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I have to agree, most electronic failures occur at start up when most 
power is needed - Our disk failures mainly occur on start up after a 
power failure.

I guess it depends where you work and what you do but I have put an 
extra disk in a machine at work and I use it as my offsite backup for 
home data, not the os just photo's and email (I don't see why an 
external disk wont do) It is also a totally different operating system. 
I use firewire/usb  disk to transfer from home to work.

IanW


Wayne Harridge wrote:
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>> Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I'm using a pair of 160 GB IDE drives mounted in USB conversion cases to 
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>> do my backup.  I have no concerns about their electronic or mechanical 
>> life since the only time they're ever powered on is when they're 
>> actually performing a backup which is, at most, once a week.  
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> Keep in mind that you may actually be reducing the MTBF of the drives by 
> using them in this way due to thermal & electrical cycling.  There are many 
> factors to consider, but you might be better off keeping these drives powered 
> up continuously.
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> ...Wayne
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> Wayne Harridge
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