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kitamesume:
the 50% chance of fail i meant is that it'll fail sooner than expected, should have been obvious.

vuzedome:
Well if you're looking for a hard drive that's made for heavy torrenting, look at the WD green CCTV drives.
Actually I'm not too sure myself but the constant you get for 24/7 CCTV recording should also meant the same with torrents.
Oops, my bad, we're talking about the same thing I guess.

Bob2004:

--- Quote from: vuzedome on May 26, 2012, 02:53:35 PM ---Well if you're looking for a hard drive that's made for heavy torrenting, look at the WD green CCTV drives.
Actually I'm not too sure myself but the constant you get for 24/7 CCTV recording should also meant the same with torrents.
Oops, my bad, we're talking about the same thing I guess.

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I don't think you are talking about the same drives. The CCTV-optimised ones are the WD AV-G drives (I have a 1.5TB one myself), and they're generally priced somewhere between the Caviar Green and the Caviar Blue drives. They're actually just WD Green drives with a few changes made to them, as far as I can tell, but I don't know what those changes are so I cdon't know how much of an improvement they are.

Freedom Kira:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on May 26, 2012, 11:26:19 AM ---the 50% chance of fail i meant is that it'll fail sooner than expected, should have been obvious.

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You specifically said "but not on a specific date." That means the same thing as "whenever," which in turn means "given infinite time."

There is no expected amount of time for a drive to fail, unless you mean the MTTF. Even then, there is absolutely no correlation between your original post and "sooner than expected." After all, "not on a specific date" can mean it can fail sooner than expected or later than expected, because heck, it's not on a specific date.

v I meant exactly what I said. Every drive will fail given infinite time. Any drive that has not failed yet will eventually fail. It's that simple. Stop trying to divert my attention elsewhere - you said there's a 50% chance of failure at no specified date, and that implies that half of the drives ever manufactured will never fail.

kitamesume:
so you're saying theres no difference between "failed" and "worn out"?

im saying "failed" mind you and not "worn out".

edit: so your 100% chance of failing should have been, "everything has a wear out date".

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