Here is an interesting discussion on hard disk drive longevity, with more links.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2099467,00.asp?kc=EWEWEMNL030207EP34A
I know people here often use there HD for longish term storage, so this is
interesting if not very
definitive.
Clearly there are a few early signs of disk failure from increased read etry
rates but
unfortunately this is not reported normally in anyway on consumer gear. It
seems that somebody
could fairly easily write some utilities to give you an alert when at least
that starts to happen.
Good addon for Norton Utilities or similar HD utils.
Tim Hughes
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