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writing garbage when the voltage drops
writing garbage when the voltage drops
Posted Jul 15, 2006 23:19 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: writing garbage when the voltage drops by giraffedata
Parent article: Crash-only software: More than meets the eye
Suffice to say that disk-drive manufacturing is a very cost-sensitive business. They'd be happy to make drives fail better if it didn't actually cost anything, but nobody is willing to pay if it does cost.
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