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> On Feb 24, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Herbert Graf wrote:
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> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 10:05 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>> I had several friends who had nothing but trouble with Maxtor in the
>>> years around 2000. I've never had a Western Digital drive fail,  
>>> and I've
>>> personally used over 20 over the years. Maybe it's all luck.
>>
>> I've never had ANY hard drive fail in the 20 years or so I've been  
>> using
>> them. I think it's because I do frequent backups.
>
> I'm not sure how backing up your data affects hard drive longevity...

It is the "watched pot doesn't boil" principle
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