dennis@home wrote:
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> "Anonymous" <> wrote in message
> news: ...
>> dennis@home wrote:
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>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> "PeterK=C3=B6hlmann" <> wrote in message=20
>>> news:frmaun$dbg$03$...
>>> > dennis@home wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> "PeterK=C3=B6hlmann" <> wrote in message
>>> >> news:frk9d6$r1v$00$...
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> Hint: A disk hard at work doing defragging is bound to
>>> >>> exhibit failures far
>>> >>> earlier than a drive just sitting there in standby
>>> >>
>>> >> Why?
>>> >> A disk doing defrag isn't spinning up and down, one that is
>>> >> idle a lot of the time does spin up and down.
>>> >> So does spin up/down have a higher failure rate than running=20
>>> >> continuously?
>>> >> Sounds like more of you bullsh!t to me.
>>> >
>>> > I am not responsible for your misconfigured system, MD5-dennis,
>>> > which constantly spins the disk down and then up again while
>>> > idle
>>>=20
>>> So you don't know how to configure power saving then!
>>> Anyway you had better do so if you are using a notebook drive as
>>> they are not designed to run continuously and will have a high
>>> failure rate if you do.
>>
>> False!
>>
>> You should look up AFR data for various types of drives and
>> acquaint yourself with some facts before further embarrassing
>> yourself.
>
> I suggest you do the same.
>
>>
>> Not that you ever really cared about looking like a fool...
>
> I can see you don't as you don't even understand the figures you want me
> to look at.
>
> BTW I do have experience of a project with 10,000 disk drives in the field
> unlike you.
You do? You were one of the unhappy campers who changed the windows disks on
a regularly base? And had less influence on it than the typical
burger-flipper?
Well, don't be upset for being fired. Your brain simply isn't advanced
enough for burger-flipping (or similar)
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