Re: hardware recommendation

On Tue, 2022-06-28 at 21:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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> 
> > On 28 Jun 2022, at 20:24, hw <hw@adminart.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2022-06-28 at 20:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > On 28. Jun 2022, at 19:40, infoomatic <infoomatic@gmx.at>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >On 28.06.22 19:21, Robert Huff wrote
> > > > > A disk drive on one of my machines is dying.
> > > > > I'd like to replace it with a _reliable_ (the old one lasted
> > > > > 10+
> > > > > years at moderate loads) consumer-grade SATA II or higher
> > > > > drive
> > > > > of at
> > > > > least 500 gbytes.
> > > > 
> > > > In the light of the link to backblaze, my mail seems quite
> > > > useless
> > > > ... I
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > no, your reply is _not_ useless.
> > 
> > Who are you to decide which replies are useless and which aren't?
> > 
> > > 1.
> > > All tests and user experiences are useless
> > 
> > That's a useless reply --- because it's not true.
> 
> I'm a user with decades of experience.
> You did not quote the hole sentence.

Quoting the whole sentence wouldn't have made your statement any more
true.

Are your decades of experince useless just because things change over
time?  I don't think so ...