Logical and economical storage of image archive

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malch
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In reply to BobSC, 6 months ago

BobSC wrote:

The reliability of items like power supplies and disk drives plummets pretty badly after 5 years. So building systems out of components that old is unlikely to work out well without a great deal of good luck.

P.S. I generally dispose of disks once they get to 5 years old. The small capacity, high power consumption, and poor reliability makes them more of a liability than an asset.

Depends on what they were in the first place. Our Dell business class machines seem to just keep running.

AFAIK, Dell use the same basic disk drive models in their business class machines that they do in their consumer products.

However, the power supplies in the business class machines are definitely superior.

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