To: ShadowAce
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
1.4 million hours MTBF. Which means that for every 1.4 million hard drives sold, only one will burn out during the first hour of operation. Once into the second hour all bets are off. There's no way the average disk drive lasts 160 years before failing. From personal experience I'd say the real median is around 4 years.
5 posted on
04/21/2008 9:51:13 AM PDT by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I wonder if this announcement was in response to
This story which was out yesterday concerning ultra high density 'patterned media' drives.
8 posted on
04/21/2008 11:12:48 AM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The secret of Life is letting go. The secret of Love is letting it show.)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
12 posted on
04/21/2008 2:37:19 PM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
They feel the heat. The war is on for SSD and HD market share! Whoopee!
13 posted on
04/21/2008 2:40:18 PM PDT by
papasmurf
(Unless I post a link to resource, what I post is opinion, regardless of how I spin it.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It won't take long before Western Digital ramps up the capacity of this new Serial ATA-II drive to 600 GB. At that capacity, you could include Windows Vista Ultimate Edition plus a lot of applications safely and still have plentiful storage space on the disk. It could also mean really fast loading of almost every program because you can read off the drive very quickly.
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