At Wed, 5 Oct 2005 it looks like K Anderson composed:
Hey folks, I thought a saw a thread on something like this but I can't seem to find it so I figure I might as well ask and see what turns up. The scenario: I use a hard drive to mirror my main hard drive. I then pull the alternate hard drive off the system and store it for later use should the primary drive fail, or the system as a whole fails. How long can the hard drive sit on the shelf before some sort of natural cause that prevents it from spinning up properly?
Well, this may or may not be of any help but are these stored drives kept in a hermetic seal? I just bought a 'de-humidifier' for my room (not for computer reasons but now I'm glad for that reason) and I was SHOCKED to see that after 24-hours it had collected 1/2 gallon of water out of the air and it was just an average day out here in San Francisco, no rain nor fog. I would imagine that it would affect the drives I have stored in boxes in my house too. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com ~ "You do best what you like most." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
