IBM no longer rating ATA disks for continuous operation???!!

[sharkeeper]

I saw this posted over on the storagereview message board!

120 GXP Specification Sheet [portable document format

Ripped from the pdf above:



<< Reliability
Error rate (non-recoverable) 1 in 1013
Start/stops (at 40° C) 40K
Recommended power-on hours (monthly) 333 >>



333 hours a month???? WTF? They expect you to turn off your PC when you're not using it???! That is ummmm sooooo archaic!!! :|

I guess all the people that run 24/7 will be SOL when it comes time to RMA because they exceeded the recommended duty cycle!

I hope that's wrong! I've never seen a spec published like this other than MTBF.

Cheers!

 

[Bozo Galora]

is it just me, or does one in a thousand drives failing sound a little high?
lessee, out of a million drives sold, 1,000 will die
guess it aint so bad

 

[TunaBoo]

<< is it just me, or does one in a thousand drives failing sound a little high?
lessee, out of a million drives sold, 1,000 will die
guess it aint so bad >>



That is how often the drive will write a sector then not be able to read it back. And I think it is like 10^103 or something. I think 🙂

 

[Bozo Galora]

oh.

(guess I should have read whole thing, not just blurb)

 

[bacillus]

<< oh.

(guess I should have read whole thing, not just blurb) >>


true! 😀

 

[Bozo Galora]

you're so mean to me























*yawn*