Re: Replace Hard Drive After 3.5 Years?
- From: "James Sweet" <jamessweet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:59:27 GMT
> I don't understand why platter *weight* would have anything at all to do
> with the amount of driving power the spindle required. Once it's going,
> it's only air resistance and bearing friction (very low) that slows
> things down. Heavy platters might take a bit longer to accelerate up to
> speed, but that's a different issue.
>
The weight of the platters does have some effect, more weight means higher
load and more friction in the bearings. I don't know how much real world
effect there is from this though.
>
> Actually, the huge majority of drives last a *lot* longer than that. The
> problem that causes most folks to replace a drive is the disk filling up
> due to "data congestion", a phenomenon well-known to Windows users, but
> uncommon for users of other Operating Systems.
>
It doesn't have much at all to do with the operating system itself, my
drives (as with most users I would say in the current era of 120+ GB drives
being the norm) are mostly filled with digital media files, a combination of
audio, video and images as well as a few large games. The operating system I
run makes no appreciable difference, without the media files I could run any
OS I want with all the applications I have on a 20GB or so drive. Of course
if I ran something on which very few of the games and applications I run are
supported, naturally the size of the drive I need would be less.
.
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