Re: add on sata card relabeling drives, installation

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Benjamin Franz <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Why would you move disks around machines unless you're recovering them
>>> after a failure?
>>
>> Because I can.  Why wouldn't you?   Mine are nearly all in swappable
>> carriers and it is a lot faster to move them than to ship data any
>> other way.
>>
>
> Because you are wearing the machine's connectors out. They are rated to be
> *infrequently* changed out. When you do it on a regular basis it will just
> be a matter of time until they develop electrical/physical problems.

Source?   The numbers I've seen are on the order of 50,000 insertions.

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  Les Mikesell
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