Originally Posted by
wphamilton
For some hard drives, or consumer hard drives operating 24/7 in servers. I used to look at the customer's use case, consider the annual failure rate and mean time before failure as much as was known then, and recommend hard drives that would likely perform without failure for the expected life cycle. I have a box full of hard drives that I've outgrown, that never crashed.
Just like helmets and injuries - it all depends on the probability of failure and how necessary precautions are. Anyone with any sense would back up their mission-critical data, but Raid-5 with network mirroring would be silly for your "my documents" folder on your desktop.
I worked for a large computer corp, and I can assure you that hard drives are engineered to have a specific life. If engineered to 10,000 hours, only a few will crash before that. Many will even have a life of 50% more than their designed life. However---------what I say is true. If used continously there are those that have crashed, and those that will.
The greatest cyclist here on this forum that claim they have not, and will never crash are only fooling themselves. Im pretty sure they are not as good as many of the world class cyclist that have crashed, and some that have died.
Im only suggesting that cyclist give themselves every chance to survive a crash without injury or even death that is possible, and that included wearing a helmet.