I used the wrong term, Ive been up about 28 hours now, and ive had quite a stressful day (as im pretty sure you know) which is continuing.
I'm talking about erasures, I was pretty sure you could assume that was what I meant when I said writes, but I guess I assumed wrong.
Sorry, your equation with losing capacity and SMART is just not applicable. My 20GB and 4GB drives are still 20GB and 4GB. Care for me to get their power on hours for you? I would also get the writes for you but SMART does not log that data, if it did it would require some of the space on the platters for storage. Magnetic hard drives either burn out within a month or last practically forever on average. Their MTBF is actually rated in more then decades. IIRC WD and seagate rate their drives at 1.5 million hours MTBF. That's 171 years... way higher then the SSDs.
Actually, now that I think about it, I still have a 52MB quantum somewhere, I think... I used it since it was almost new. it's still 52MB.
If you don't want to talk about TCO, fine. That's not what I asked you to do. Again, I asked you to look at TCO versus BENEFEITS. For me, the benefiets obviously do not outweigh the TCO over 5 years of use as a hard drive, and I doubt they would for many others as well unless they only used the drive for writing emails and playing solitare.
Seasoning the drive is not what you think... seasoning is setting it up as if it was well used, "low leveling" is what is used to reset it to higher performance. |
