hard disk

[Alex Snow]

Nope everything sounds ok.
I have a maxtor 240mb disk here that's about 11 years old. and that 
doesnt seem like it's the odd one that lasted long bc there are a few 
more where that came from and they still work fine.
one of the disks in this box is a 1005mb maxtor and it's also seeming 
like a good drive.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 11:22:40PM -0500, Jude 
DaShiell wrote:
> Your disk could be failing.  The mtbf for most hard disks is 5 years but
> I.B.M. hard disks have an mtbf of 15 years.  Try buying an IBM hard disk
> and you'll notice that fact reflected in the price tag if purchased new.
> If your computer has been sounding like a loud ticking clock lately that's
> a sign of hard disk failure.  I've had this Dell long enough to have to
> replace the hard disk and that's what happened over here before the drive
> died.  Fortunately, much more capacity is available for about the same
> amount of money than was the case a few years ago.  The 20GB disk in the
> Dell installed in 1999 died earlier in 2003 just after the warranty ran
> out on the machine.  So now for a few extra dollars I have a drive with 6
> tunes the capacity of the original purchased from a local vendor.
> 
> 
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