[Gllug] Life of hard drives

[Tethys]

Chris Bell writes:

>   I would like to find a drive that does not need to be fast, or
>noisy, but has as long a life as possible.

Then get a slow drive. I have a large number of 5400 and 7200 RPM
drives, and they've been consistently pretty reliable. No, they're
not as fast as 10K or 15K drives. But I don't *need* them to be.
And despite what many will claim, neither do 99% of the population.

Tet

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