From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID backup
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:13:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021004221326.C432731@hiwaay.net> (raw)
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".
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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2002-10-05 3:13 Chris Adams [this message]
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2002-10-04 17:04 Cress, Andrew R
2002-10-03 11:20 jbradford
2002-10-03 11:26 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-03 11:36 ` jbradford
2002-10-03 20:00 ` Kanoalani Withington
2002-10-03 23:59 ` Effrem Norwood
2002-10-04 8:00 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-10-04 10:25 ` Illtud Daniel
2002-10-04 11:12 ` jbradford
2002-10-04 11:20 ` Alvin Oga
2002-10-04 12:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-04 12:52 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-10-04 13:24 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-10-04 14:07 ` Russell King
2002-10-04 17:15 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-10-04 21:45 ` Alvin Oga
2002-10-04 14:32 ` Luca Berra
2002-10-04 15:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-04 15:31 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-10-04 16:11 ` Russell King
2002-10-04 18:51 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-10-04 18:58 ` Kanoalani Withington
2002-10-03 11:27 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
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