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Was there a hard disk type that had a SMART overflow crash/bug?
25 year old recalls may be a bit hard to search but the problem is as true today:
SanDisk SSDs had a 40,000 hour failure
HPE had some that died on 32,768 hours
The more paranoid data centre people ...
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When did CMOS processors become the fastest?
In DEC, the VAX 9000, due to ship in around 1989 but actually delayed somewhat, was a hugely-expensive ECL-based computer.
By 1988 it had become clear to some that the NVAX processor, a CMOS ...
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When did CMOS processors become the fastest?
It's hard to put an exact date on it, but the release of the Intel Pentium Pro in 1995 is a good approximation. This was fabricated in Bipolar CMOS (BICMOS) which is now mostly used for mixed analogue-...
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