Solid State Disk Maintenance - HBM Genesis GEN5i User Manual

GEN5i
The reliable service life of a typical hard disk drive is around three to five years.
Some drives work for a decade or longer, but every year that passes after three
years increases the chances of a failure.
Therefore HBM advises if the instrument uses a hard disk drive to replace it at
least every two years to prevent loss of data or inactivity of the instrument.
Contact HBM service for more details.
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Solid State Disk maintenance

When installed in the instrument, the solid state disk is the "data center" of the
instrument. It holds all of the programs and recorded data. The CPU may be
the "brain" of the system, but if so, the solid state disk is its memory and
personality; it is what makes the instrument what it is.
Solid state disks have no mechanical parts to fail, however each block of data
on a solid state disk can only be erased and written a defined number of times
before it fails. The solid state disk manage this limitation so that drives can last
for many years under normal use. Very intensive use of the solid state disk to
record and store new data will shorten the drives life expectation.
The reliable service life of a typical solid state disk drive is around three to five
years. Some drives work for a decade or longer, but every year that passes
after three or so increases the chances of a failure.
Therefore HBM advises if the instrument uses a solid state disk drive to replace
it at least every two years to prevent loss of data or inactivity of the instrument.
Contact HBM service for more details.
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