My $0.02 on the drives:
I have somewhere in the neighborhood of two dozen computers in my
home office, mostly older generation servers bought on e-Bay. Aside
from one SCSI drive that was DOA when I bought it, I have not had any
failures, including the used drives. I have had a number of IDE
drives fail, including a SATA drive that was purchased new and failed
without warning after a little over a year. That drive wasn't even
on all the time.
I believe that the IDE drives (and possibly SATA drives as well) are
not made for continuous operation, especially in an environment that
has high ambient temperatures (my office is usually 30-35 deg C, 85-95 deg F).
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Carsten Gehrke LFS No.: 190 using Linux since kernel 0.98
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