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- From: gerald.belton@ozonehole.com (Gerald Belton)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Hard Disks: Toss them out
- Message-ID: <1513.442.uupcb@ozonehole.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:21:00 GMT
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- Organization: The Ozone Hole - SKYDIVE New Orleans! - (504)891-3142 16,800 bps
- Reply-To: gerald.belton@ozonehole.com (Gerald Belton)
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- >The hard disks tend to last about three years before they start to go bad.
- >Historically, we've just tossed them out and replaced them. We've not bother
- >with doing a low-level format or otherwise trying to restore them to health,
- >the rationale being that the replacement costs are low and extracting anothe
- >six months or so of life isn't worth the bother.
-
- >I'd like to know if this is a sensible policy? What actually goes bad in the
- >drive? If the bearings and mechanical parts are actually good for many years
- >then perhaps we're being wasteful by throwing them out and, instead,
- >should just reformat them every few years and keep on using them? I've seen
- >software adverstised that claims that we should do this, but I've no idea ho
- >good it really works? I'd sure appreciate any knowledgable advice. Thanks.
-
- I think you should definitely continue tossing them out. In fact, I'll
- e-mail you my address and you can send them to me when you toss them
- out. :^)
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