[G4] Backing up hard drive

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In my experience, if you get more than 3 years on a hard drive, it's running on borrowed time.  Sure, some will run 4, 5, even 6 years, but you'd better have a reliable regular backup system.  The older smaller SCSI hard drives seemed to last forever, but the larger ones do not.  And Western Digital is the least reliable (IMHO).

Nate
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Harry Freeman <harry at gifutiger.com>
> Greetings ( + )!( + )
> 
> On Nov 5, 2006, at 2:53 PM, J.M.P.Hissel wrote:
> 
> > On 05-11-2006 22:21, Robert MacLeay, robertmacleay at mac.com, wrote:
> >
> >> Assuming it has been in regular use, I would not depend on any five 
> >> year old
> >> hard disk in any computer.  Replace it.
> >
> > HMM, my 10 yrs old Seagate Cheetah's and Barracuda's in Micronet 
> > DataDocks
> > work still flawlessly!
> >
> > Jo Hissel
> > ______________________________________________
> 
> Product Info: Western Digital WD400BB Hard Drive EIDE 40.0GB
> 
> * Mean time before failure
> * 500,000 hour(s)
> 
> That's just a little over 57 Years, I've been in the computer industry 
> since 1964 and have never had a disk drive failure, just lucky I guess.
> The only reason that I've ever replace a drive is because I wanted a 
> larger drive.
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