There are apparently 2,5" hard drives rated for 24/7 operation. You have to search them, but they exist. Those are mainly built and validated for bladeservers, where heat and size is also a concern.
Normal off the shelf HDDs are only rated for about 33% uptime.
Tom's Networking was formerly know as "Small Net Builder". It is run by Tim Higgins and could be reached via http://www.timhiggins.com (which now redirects to the new site).
Actually, the site was quite good, the reviews where fair and interesting, testing mostly WLAN-equipment in an in-depth way that rivals for example the german magazine c't.
I hope that the site isn't influenced too much by the THG-company-ethics (if you can call it that...)
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Normal off the shelf HDDs are only rated for about 33% uptime.
Tom's Networking was formerly know as "Small Net Builder". It is run by Tim Higgins and could be reached via http://www.timhiggins.com (which now redirects to the new site). ...)
Actually, the site was quite good, the reviews where fair and interesting, testing mostly WLAN-equipment in an in-depth way that rivals for example the german magazine c't.
I hope that the site isn't influenced too much by the THG-company-ethics (if you can call it that