Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:44:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:44:36 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:62377 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:44:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 07:27:22 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: Ricky Beam cc: Linux Kernel Mail List Subject: Re: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ricky, We have all tried to be nice and you continue to wage a battle of storage classes. Do you recall a move called "Animal House", where the Delta house is before a review board? "BLOW JOB" "BLOW JOB" "BLOW JOB" "BLOW JOB" "BLOW JOB" "BLOW JOB" WHeeeeeeeeeeeeee and everyone runs out leaves the subject alone, does that help? On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote: > >Please consider picking up a modern drive and see it has a "THREE" (3) > >Year warranty period which is about the length of service for a continuous > >run device on the MTBF. > > 3years is ~27k hours. The MTBF on modern drives is more like 57years. > (500k hours.) 100k hours is 11+ years. No ide drive ever manufactured > will last that long. (Maybe if it's sitting on a shelf for 90% of its life.) > > --Ricky > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/