Need your assitance - open letter to Hard drives manufacturers

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Originally posted by WebHawg
True RD. I can't argue the fact that data loss for those types of institutions would be extremely critical. My main point of posting that was to point out that cars and computers can't be compared as far as equipment failure goes. For example, a hospitals server goes out. More than likely they have the records backed up somewhere and can restore the lost data. But when you're driving in your car and the brakes go out and you go tumbling off a cliff and end up getting killed,... there is no backup that will restore your life. So quality assurance of automotive standards needs to much more intensive than the quality assurance of harddrive manufacture.

So what happens when the hard disk fails along with a tape? I know that tapes have relatively low failure rates, but what if?

If the hard drives lasted longer, they would probably be replaced before they died. Hence the tapes failing wouldnt be much of an issue