RE: Hard disk longevity -- MIDRANGE-L

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I know about a B10 running since 1989, no disk crashes yet, it has v3r2
installed and is not used much (is used as a communication gateway for some
atm, btw that's why the system is never down) but, since the system is on,
the disks are spinning.  Those where the good old disks. :)

Somebody told me once that not stopping the disks give them more lifespan. 

EAPT
Informatica Corporativa

-----Original Message-----
From: James W. Kilgore [mailto:email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:16 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Hard disk longevity

We've had two running since 1996 and just had our first crash this past 
month.



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