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Wayne.B

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:18:02 -0500, wrote:

The 33xx drives just failed hard but they really didn't fail that
often. Most failures didn't actually lose data unless you had a head
crash.

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Once your DASD farm got up to 1,000 plus drives of slightly aging
33xx's, unit failures became almost a weekly occurrence, each one
requiring a huge amount of time and effort to recover the data.