John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Mon Jan 17 14:00:42 CST 2011
That works sometimes ;-) I've been going through all my old parts and testing them as I can. None of the IDE hard drives I've tested with Spin Rite have passed. I guess having old hard drivers in the storage cabinet is a waste of space. I've also had quite a few 6-7 PCs come this past year with failing hard drives. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon - Slough I read an article somewhere once that said if your hard drive makes it past 6 months, the chances are it'll last more than 6 years. Mind you, it did also go on to say that if it failed, a "gentle" nudge against the hard brick wall might be enough to get it going again long enough to recover the data. I haven't tried that myself though... But only due to lack of opportunity :-)