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Report: Hard Drive Test "Surprises" Google
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Feb 20, 2007, 12:44 AM
 
BBC NEWS | Technology | Hard disk test 'surprises' Google

High use and high temperatures are not harmful to hard drives, acccording to the Google study. Instead, younger drives and drives operating at lower temperatures tend to fail more often.

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Feb 20, 2007, 01:03 AM
 
Good to know that my decision to open up my collection of "files" to the whole campus won't hurt my external hard drive on which all the files are stored.
     
   
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