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(dws - on a boat?)Re: Web Hosting for Monks

by dws (Chancellor)
on May 05, 2001 at 03:43 UTC ( [id://78165]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Web Hosting for Monks

... I live on a houseboat

Cool. But that brings up one concern: Does the (gentle?) rocking of a houseboat affect the half-life of disk drives? Spinning drives have gyroscopic properties, which you can feel by playing with a spun-up drive. (You can just barely feel the effect by applying pitch or yaw to a laptop). If the rocking of the boat continually takes drives off-axis, is the resulting strain going to reduce their reliability or longevity?

Does anyone have info on the half-life of hard disks on boats? Are there special hardened-for-Naval-use drives that are more boatworthy than off-the-shelf drives?

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Re: (dws - on a boat?)Re: Web Hosting for Monks
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 05, 2001 at 05:19 UTC
    If I played Half-Life on a house boat, I'd surely be seasick.

    I'm feeling queasy for thinking it.

    Seriously, I doubt the effect on the drive will take it below the replacement date of the drive. I'd be surprised if jcwren didn't replace them within two years.

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