Reply to post: Re: The drive's a Seagate...

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Re: The drive's a Seagate...

You mean the inside tracks or the outside?

Assuming it was running constantly from 1997-03-01 to 2016-01-01, a 5400 rpm disk would have made 53.5 thousand million revolutions.

This translates to 25.6 million miles at the rim or 6.6 million miles at the spindle.

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