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On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 19:07 -0700, James H H Lampert wrote: > I wrote: > . . . > > I just wish we had the spare drive space to mirror our > >D02; on the other hand, it's more than a decade old, and > >it's the only thing still in service here that's never > >once lost a drive. > > 'Twould seem I spoke too soon. Our D02, "Saturn," tried to > come up on its exercise cycle this afternoon, and it had a > hard drive failure. On the load source. > Fare thee well, "Saturn". > Looking back, it's got between 50,000 and 100,000 hours on > it without a single part being replaced, has outlasted its > internal UPS by at least 5 years, as well as a lot of > DOS/Windoze boxes and two terminals. My D04 is still kicking, in a similar vein. It received a new tape drive (under warranty) after about the first year and since then, it's went through the about same number of PC's and terminals as your D02, and at least two printers. Regards, Rich
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