Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:13:26 -0500 | From | Chris Adams <> | Subject | Re: RAID backup |
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Once upon a time, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org> said: >As for stored media, I think Maxtor are quoting >1M hours MTTF - (I hate to think how you measure such a figure) - for >the 320G, and that is probably longer than I'd trust either the tape or >the drive to survive.
DLT tapes are rated for a 30 year shelf life - I would not expect the shelf life of a hard drive to be more than a few years due to "stiction". -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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