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To: dybdahl who wrote (63032)	11/14/2001 1:43:28 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Lars - thanks for the input on the IBM drives - I was actually looking at them for performance reasons. I have, I guess, had good luck on drives - for example, I am running a set of 4 1GB Fujitsu SCSI drives which have been on line continuously since summer of 1990. They were rated at 250,000 Hr MTBF - which is 28 years - so I anticipate I will retire before they do! Most of the newer drives are 300,000 Hr MTBF or better, a couple are 500,000 Hr MTBF. Heat is the enemy of any electronic component. I pay a lot of attention to cooling, always install a chassis fan if one is not already in the box (in addition to the PS fan), and leave enough space around the disks to assure good air flow. My newer boxes all have temperature monitoring which would shut the box down if overheating occurred, but that's not so easy on a non-ACPI box, so I just use several fans on the older systems and check them from time to time.

To: dybdahl who wrote (63032)	11/14/2001 2:41:25 PM
From: Plaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You obviously don't have IBM 75GXP harddisks installed in your computers. They have a very high rate of failures. I think I have had a harddisk malfunction rate of 20% in 2001. Why do you keep using them then? :-) I'd dump 'em after the 2nd failure and move on. But in general I agree with you; I've had far more HD failures than any other components on my systems. Windows XP crashes just because this driver is unstable. Any OS will crash if a driver is unstable. I know the system restore function very well - once it removed one days work from a computer I was using So do you hand code machine language? System recovery only watches binaries, drivers, the registry, etc. It would never rollback any source files. You can also turn it off on drives that you don't want to run it on. Plazz