[AusNOG] Possibly useful device for data retention?

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 17:09 +0800, Chris Legg wrote:
> 100 years? If it's anything like the WD Green drives you'll be lucky if 
> they last 2 years.

Tell me more. I understood WD Greens to be aimed at the desktop market,
where they should last fine and they are half the price or less of the
higher-end ones. Run them 24/7 and they'll fail, give them an ordinary
desktop's duty cycle where they spend two-thirds of their lives idle or
off, and they should last OK...?

If you've seen test data that says otherwise, do tell! Because WD is
certainly selling them as suitable for desktops.

Regards, K.

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