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To: s. bateh who wrote (7341)	2/16/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: Daniel L. Schuster	Respond to of 10072

About drives and failures - I've been using personal computers since 1982. I've personally had three hard drive failures, all by well-known manufacturers. I've also had one 3.5 floppy failure. My student (I'm a college prof) work in labs that have probably a 5% floppy drive failure rate per year. The floppies themselves fail at at least the same rate. Hard drives probably fail at about 2% a year. Anyone that expects a drive or disk to never fail is out of their mind. That's why smart people do multiple backups of critical data. I backup my My Documents folder to another hard drive and to a zip. Reports of jaz or zip failures mean nothing without comparison data. dan schuster