> 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.
> Harold

My experience as well. Just lucky, perhaps ...

Jack


On 2/24/08, Cedric Chang <cc@nope9.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 24, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Herbert Graf wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> CC
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