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To: Pierre-X who wrote (3359)	5/19/1998 2:50:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (2) of 9256

What can feed demand for drives? I would like to know if there is any report on the typical drive currently in place in enterprise systems. While a drive may have a mean time before failure of 114 years, at some point it would not make sense to have 9 one gig drives when it could be replaced with 1 nine gig drive. It would be interesting to know if there is a study which would indicate the need for replacing older drives. It would seem with constant demand to add new capacity, managers would be reluctant to shed older drives as the issues of seek time have not advanced as quickly as areal density. But at some point, the room is just not big enough anymore. Regards, Mark

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