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>Hard drives may be cheap to replace, but the data contained
>therein could be extremely valuable.  Data recovery services
>aren't always cheap, and many companies hesitate to allow an
>outside company that type of access to their info.
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>>Frank Shelleby, Jr.
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Good Point!!!

The mean time between failure of a hard
drive left on all the time is likely higher than
electronic components frequently switched.
As was pointed out, however, we have not
seen proof of any of the "seems obvious"
assertions.

Anyone with valuable data on their disks
should absolutely back them up.  A while
back an English Professor here, who
probably thought that hard drives never
failed, lost a good deal of work because
he did not back up his drives.

Dean Kukral
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Wichita State University
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