Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up

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From: Franc Zabkar
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:36

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On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:24:53 +0100, "Centre Parting"
<nokia.account@ntlworld.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:

>The Google study presumably polled a lot of PC users about HDD failures.

The Google study concentrated on Google's own huge installed base of
hard drives spanning several manufacturers, models, and generations.

Nobody was polled.

Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population: 
http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf

- Franc Zabkar
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From: Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net>
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Subject: Re: 500 GB WD My Book external H/D suddenly not wanting to fire up
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:36:08 +1000
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