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To: i-node who wrote (418)1/30/2017 2:39:49 PM
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That's the way I read the article too.

It's an arbitrary number, but I generally retire drives soon after 20,000 hrs of use and put them on a shelf.

I will use retired drives for experiments though. Mainly that's for testing free software.

Josh

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