On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:44 AM, K Anderson wrote:
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From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "K Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: Stored hard drive failure?
On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:13 AM, K Anderson wrote:
How long can the hard drive sit on the shelf before some sort of
natural
cause that prevents it from spinning up properly?
How long are you storing them for? I would think that the data
on the
disk would quickly become out of date and stale before any physical
issues would arise.
Thanks for your response,
Not sure how long I'm storing them (See above question where I
asked -- How
long can the HD sit on the shelf... and the other questions seemed
to be
editted out). But you're right the info could become out-of-date
unless when
I did patch management then I would pull the stored HD off the
shelf and
hope that it didn't fail because of non-use and re-mirror the main
drive
then stored the secondary back on the shelf. But then that really
doens't
hit the other two questions that were editted out.
Perhaps if somebody had experience with doing the very scenario I
thought
of. I know HDs can be touchy but how touchy can they get if they
are just
sitting on the shelf waiting for resuse and me going, darn that HD
is bad
now that it sat on the shelf for X number of [days|weeks|months|
years].
I somewhat regularly retrieve used HDs off the shelf for use in some
test or project or another and never have had a problem with a
relatively modern HD (like built in the last 5 years) not working,
even after sitting on a shelf for 1-2 years.
Is your data going to be good after 1-2 years?
If you are talking weeks or months sitting there that should not be
an issue with modern HD mechanisms
Chad
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