Hardrives

There seems to be a emphasis in the hardrive manufacturing industry to
increase size of disks rather than increase quality of the products (I would
guess that harddrives die more than any other piece of hardware inside a
computer).

Why can't they try to develop drives that last as long as say, hmm a network
card or a system fan which have far longer lifespans, but do just as much
work!? Does everything always have to come down to making money?

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There seems to be a emphasis in the hardrive manufacturing industry to
increase size of disks rather than increase quality of the products (I
would guess that harddrives die more than any other piece of hardware
inside a computer).

Why can't they try to develop drives that last as long as say, hmm a
network card or a system fan which have far longer lifespans, but do just
as much work!? Does everything always have to come down to making money?

Hard drives Do work extremely hard. sadly there`s no such thing as perpetual
motion g

Hard drives Do work extremely hard.

So do processors but how many of those have died in the last 5 years in your
experience?

sadly there`s no such thing as perpetual motion g

Yeah, of course, but I'm wondering why there's no real concerted effort to
prevent them from dying so quickly...

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Hard drives Do work extremely hard.


So do processors but how many of those have died in the last 5 years in your
experience?


sadly there`s no such thing as perpetual motion g


Yeah, of course, but I'm wondering why there's no real concerted effort to
prevent them from dying so quickly...


Processors do not have moving parts. When you consider what a hard
drive does as far as accuracy, and the time it typically takes before a
failure, it is pretty remarkable. We would like everything we buy to
last forever, but unfortunately that does not happen.

All I would say is hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Back up
your HD's contents so that if a failure occurs, it is nothing more than
a temporary set back.

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:25:28 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

Hard drives Do work extremely hard.

So do processors but how many of those have died in the last 5 years in your
experience?

sadly there`s no such thing as perpetual motion g

Yeah, of course, but I'm wondering why there's no real concerted effort to
prevent them from dying so quickly...

Heat is the killer of hard drives. Use MBM5 or equivalent to monitor
HD temp with SMART. Keep the drive around 35C at idle and no hotter
than 40C under stress.

My WD 80GB HD in a Kingwin triple fan removable bay is running at 29C.
The mainboard is at 26C. Ambient is 21C (70F).




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one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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There seems to be a emphasis in the hardrive manufacturing industry to
increase size of disks rather than increase quality of the products (I
would guess that harddrives die more than any other piece of hardware
inside a computer).

Why can't they try to develop drives that last as long as say, hmm a
network card or a system fan which have far longer lifespans, but do just
as much work!? Does everything always have to come down to making money?


In my limited experience, optical drives fail more frequently. Power supply
failures seem a common issue on this group.