Funnily enough, I still have a 20Mb ... yes 20Mb Seagate RLL drive running in a 286 with 128Kb (Kb NOT Mb) of memory running MsDos 3.0 and stacker software to make the 20Mb look like 40Mb!! All it does is simply routes comms packets from the Radio Amateur network onto my LAN. It has been turned on almost continuously since 1986 and never faltered apart from a couple of mains outages.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 17 November 2016 09:42 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives
I've blown up a 300MB drive when installing it, back when that was a seriously big drive, but that's it.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, at 09:37 AM, Paul Hill wrote:
On 16 November 2016 at 21:01, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
How long do you normally use a laptop hard drive before replacing it (before disaster strikes it)?
I don't think I've ever had a drive I personally own die. Still got a 9Gb SCSI drive running in my Amiga 4000 :-)
-- Paul
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