what you wrote about life span has been my experience as well. As far as
the identity goes: Rather than starting a family feud. Let's just say it's
a spouse of a sibling of the spouse of one of my parents siblings.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Smitty" <a.smitty@verizon.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] bogus info?
> On Friday 13 December 2002 12:04, you wrote:
> > I self proclaimed "expert" tells that - no uncertain terms - that Unix
(and
> > Linux) trash hard drives after two-three years. What he says is that
> > because of the heavy load that Unix puts on the heads and actuator, they
> > wear sooner than they would on a M$ box. Could this have been true at
one
> > time? I've been in this game a while (albeit on the M$ side of the
fence,
> > but on the Linux side for about 3 years now. Sounds like bunk to me.
Any
> > thoughts?
> The person who told you that is spreading misinformation and it Never was
true
> for Linux or any unix type op sys I am familiar with. Hard drives
typically
> wear out in 4-5 years on Any operating system. Could you please enlighten
us
> as to this person's identity? This is no point in protecting the guilty.
> Smitty
>
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