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Life expectancy of IDE disk
Hi,
I want to use one of my old pc's (pentium pro 200) as a router/internet server (currently I have a Pentium 133/32MB doing the same thing). However this one hasn't got any power saving features so it won't turn of the harddisk after a certain period. I wonder what is the life expectancy of a regular (maxtor) IDE disk if it is running 24 hours a day (not much writing or reading though). Anyone got any experience with this? Regards, Ron AF Greve. |
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Thanks, yes I thought about that (or actually buying some outdated hardware with power savings in a regular shop). I just wondered if I could do it real cheap :-) Thanks for your reply. Regards Ron AF Greve. "Eric Legge" wrote in message ... Subject: Life expectancy of IDE disk From: "Moonlit" Date: 05/07/03 04:26 Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: Hi, I want to use one of my old pc's (pentium pro 200) as a router/internet server (currently I have a Pentium 133/32MB doing the same thing). However this one hasn't got any power saving features so it won't turn of the harddisk after a certain period. I wonder what is the life expectancy of a regular (maxtor) IDE disk if it is running 24 hours a day (not much writing or reading though). Anyone got any experience with this? Regards, Ron AF Greve. I would buy a motherboard and processor on ebay that is more up to date and that supports IDE power saving. It would be a good idea to get a motherboard that supports RAID so that you can run two hard drives so that the system is duplicated. If one hard drive goes down, the system switches to the other hard drive running a clone of the system. Eric, PC Buyer Beware! http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm |
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:01:00 +0200, "Moonlit"
wrote: Hi, Thanks, yes I thought about that (or actually buying some outdated hardware with power savings in a regular shop). I just wondered if I could do it real cheap :-) Wait until a constantly running box drives you nuts with its humming noise, then you'd be throwing gazillions$ to silence it. No to mention the saving in the electric$ bill, of couse this doesn't apply is you live at parent's. -bobb |
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"Moonlit" wrote in message
... Hi, I want to use one of my old pc's (pentium pro 200) as a router/internet server (currently I have a Pentium 133/32MB doing the same thing). However this one hasn't got any power saving features so it won't turn of the harddisk after a certain period. I wonder what is the life expectancy of a regular (maxtor) IDE disk if it is running 24 hours a day (not much writing or reading though). Anyone got any experience with this? Life expectancy of hard disks follows the bath-curve. Drives either suffer from infant mortality, or they give quite a few years of good service. The vast majority of drives will last a good 3- 5 years. At the top-end things can really expand out. It isn't uncommon at all to have 10 year old drives still running strong in machines that run 24/7. Gareth |
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Hi,
"bobb" wrote in message ... On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:01:00 +0200, "Moonlit" wrote: Hi, Thanks, yes I thought about that (or actually buying some outdated hardware with power savings in a regular shop). I just wondered if I could do it real cheap :-) Wait until a constantly running box drives you nuts with its humming noise, then you'd be throwing gazillions$ to silence it. No to mention Well I am used to the noise with my current machines :-). the saving in the electric$ bill, of couse this doesn't apply is you this is the reason I don't use my old HP9000/380 series as internet server. But it sure would do well for an 24/7 machine (it has run for may years in a production environment without flaw). (and makes more noise then 5 PC's -) ). live at parent's. Ha, I am 39 years old, but you are right maybe I should go back to mum and dad :-) -bobb Thanks for your Reply, Regards, Ron AF Greve. |
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:05:43 +0200, "Moonlit"
wrote: Ok, so it is just a gamble (like most hardware). Well the reason I aksed was that my 2 year old P3CE system stopped working after only two years. It also depends on the heat in the disks. Keep your disks under +40°C http://private.peterlink.ru/tochinov/download.html |
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OK, help me understand this.
I have 2 Maxtor 200 GB IDE 133 drives. Motherboard Moniter 5 is reporting a temperature of 23 degrees for drive 0 and 42 degrees for drive 1. I would expect drive 1 to be hotter ... its in a removable bay. but 23 can't be correct, room temperature is 25. "Ken" wrote in message ... On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:05:43 +0200, "Moonlit" wrote: Ok, so it is just a gamble (like most hardware). Well the reason I aksed was that my 2 year old P3CE system stopped working after only two years. It also depends on the heat in the disks. Keep your disks under +40°C http://private.peterlink.ru/tochinov/download.html |
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 09:15:14 -0600, "Wayne"
wrote: OK, help me understand this. I have 2 Maxtor 200 GB IDE 133 drives. Motherboard Moniter 5 is reporting a temperature of 23 degrees for drive 0 and 42 degrees for drive 1. I would expect drive 1 to be hotter ... its in a removable bay. but 23 can't be correct, room temperature is 25. Something i wrong with the 23° reading. 42° is seems to be normal. Try to get the 42° down. |
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