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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@ter...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] LSI Logic 53C1030 SCSI
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:50:45 +0100

> How old are those drives?
> My very vague rule of thumb is that the bathtub failure curve for most  
> moving computer machinery
> rises steeply after at most about 5 years,
> so if they're already a few years old ...

they varied: typically 7 or 8, some 10 to 15