<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net" target="_blank">ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 08:59 -0700, Pete Wright wrote:<br>
> There are some viruses/trojans out there that make it seem that your<br>
> HARDWARE is progressively failing: notifcation that drive is failing,<br>
> etc.<br>
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</div>FreeBSD and Linux only here. XP in VBox. I never have seen this.<br>
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> so far, knock wood<br>
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Done.<br>
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When I read Mike's "All drives fail" I first wanted to reply, "no, I've<br>
got Samsung that never will fail", but since punishment follows swiftly,<br>
it seemed to risky to write this even as a joke.<br>
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I bet if I would have written this claim, storing the sent mail would<br>
have lead to a click click noise from a drive.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law</a><br>
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We should be very careful with claims about drives. Experiences are<br>
interesting, but drives that are old and still living can't be compared<br>
to nowadays drives. IIRC the drive in my Lacom Atari thingy is a Seagate<br>
SCSI, 42MB. It's now around 20 years old and still ok. I turned it off<br>
and on several times a day for perhaps more than 10 years. No drive from<br>
the last 10 years would survive such a usage for more than 3 years.<br>
<br>
Perhaps this drive will never die, but what could we use a 42MB drive<br>
for nowadays?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>feel free and trust whatever you like to whatever degree you want. i'll keep my data backed up and plan for hard drive failure.. cheers!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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