2001-12-04 11:31:19
User babymac wrote in,
"Yet another dire warning from the Apple iPod discussion boards...
This one quoted a message on macintouch.com. To summarize, it stated that an Apple Tech representative has strongly warned against using your iPod as a boot disk. This rep. had supposedly seen an iPod that had been running OS X server continuously for several days. Because of the wear on the drive, it failed.
This same post speculates that Apple will begin to screen the iPods it services for "unsupported" (ab)use.
I find this particularly worrying because one of the first things I did with my iPod was install OS X. Granted, I haven't run my iMac from it for long periods of time. My main purpose was just to learn OS X without actually installing it on my 500 MHz G3...which I think is a little too slow to run OS X efficiently. Anyway, from now on, I'll be very careful not to over-use the boot disk feature."
Scary, if true. The Toshiba drive in the iPod has a stated 20,000 hour MTBF rating. Far shorter than desktop drives (on the order of 750,000 hours), but still seemingly long enough to boot into OS X a few times...
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