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Re:What is the best hard drive? by k-mcgrady on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @12:56PM (#8924366)
>> "makes it less "evergreen""

The evergreen no date thing is fine with me - provided the content itself is actually evergreen. That's the bit people seem to forget. Not dating content doesn't magically make it last forever. If the information is unlikely to expire then I don't need a date. If there is a chance that the information will go out of date, especially if the dated information will not be useful to the reader, then it should be dated.

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Re:What is the best hard drive? by gnopgnip on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:14PM (#8924484)
In five years will the failure rate of 3-4tb drives that are harvested from external enclosures matter?
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Re:What is the best hard drive? by sillysaurus3 on Thursday January 22, 2015 @07:04AM (#8928703)
I have no idea why this is downvoted at all, let alone downvoted so heavily. It's correct. The content will be out of date in five years, so it's not evergreen and should be dated.
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