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[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 23:21 -0400, Steven Vollom wrote:

> May I ask this?  I have never actually lost data due to a broken HDD.  Are 
> there any built-in warning mechanisms within HDD's that let you know when they 
> are about worn out?  Do they fail, or break, without warning?  How much of a 
> concern should that be?  In 20+ years, I have never had one break.  I have 
> always just replaced them with bigger drives.  I can never be really sure, but 
> I think this may be the last expansion I will ever need for data, so wearing 
> out the drives or actual physical failure are what I am facing now.  Even that 
> may be a bit oxymoronic, I am 66 years old.  

Steven, I'll give you 50/50 odds that you not only outlast the hard
drives, but live to witness the new birth of the next generation storage
medium ...which I predict will be a tabletop fish bowl of algae. You'll
be telling the list how you decided to add Miracle Grow and all your
artwork now looks like Paul Gauguin pieces. <grins> Ric

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