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- From: dbr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Rosler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Leaving machine on 24hrs??
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 10:09:45 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- In article <2B2D2A03.23733@news.service.uci.edu> eapu168@orion.oac.uci.edu (Lee Furnival) writes:
- > Should the system be left on 24 hours a day?
- >
- >Will I be testing the bounds of "MTBF" ratings by leaving everything on?
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- An article in PC Mag a while back showed that the life of a hard drive and its
- MFBF places it far beyond its usefulness. I don't remember the exact statis-
- tics, but basically, if you leave the system on 24 hours/day, by the time it
- would fail, the hard drive would be between 6(7) years at the earliest, and as
- old as 12 years old. Now really, do you think you'll be using the drive in
- 2005 when a gigabyte drive might fit on a pixel size chip of chocolate :)?
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