From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CC413800E for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 23:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A46821C02F; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 23:06:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gh0-f181.google.com (mail-gh0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F86E0942 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 23:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghz3 with SMTP id 3so193364ghz.40 for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:05:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fR3dL0hyOR/FTOKpK6Kv/GgiMOz/u/jYKM2p3SaJy1g=; b=p+n4fNkue+lXB+z2a3W45grELxwbmO7PGj4j3JSnnQFhEysEoDAMLQ5ZXfvOPF1n9+ RePxFiutvM7IVF9+RkiDBZ0TtDAcYENUIjNZy1ZXwxwnmUOj5lyArjR4DoCzbYbyJ3UJ 7X5Rr2Tg1sp7DijYExMuyVSenwkwW0udNryAxp/3sDeQP1aO5ujrLoUK9hEZoqZCb8PK Toy9Y0iyxNVFbP+q5kTRJK489H34v/DITzziASZRIUSIPySrBWcAQ2tYb1JAcaeac2jp MVCJS3aERCKQPXLTB2xiIKqyNOogGO3rLAWfM/e9jgB9iNn8vICPWWcFh6Qi9SK6XgfE E8Cg== Received: by 10.236.184.201 with SMTP id s49mr15140011yhm.110.1344380707069; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-116-140.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.116.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e16sm18949311ani.22.2012.08.07.16.05.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50219F20.4010300@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:05:04 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120717 Firefox/14.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive References: <501E6AFA.4000205@gmail.com> <50219626.5010806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e0b88212-4331-4b71-823e-2a9e2f4349e4 X-Archives-Hash: 23dc49e39d13bbaf888e53d03e3077e7 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it. > Of course... > >> I just >> want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of >> use. > But what you don't know about those failed drives is whether the user > could have predicted it by watching the smartctl data more closely. > > Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of > months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output in which case the > user could have transferred data to a new drive. > > Keep in mind, that's all you're talking about here. You don't want to > spend the money for a second drive, but you know you'll have to do > _something_ if the drive starts failing. Not having backups isn't a > good plan... > > Take care, > Mark > > I realize that not having backups is not good. Thing is, I really don't have a way to back up that much data. Heck, I got about 1Tb that will be transfered to the new drive when I feel it is ready. Other than a second drive, I have no means of backing up that much data. I thought about a blue ray burner but even that is a lot of media. I think I figured up over a 100. Plain DVDs are even worse. My plan is to watch the logs and buy another drive as soon as I can. In the meantime, it is what it is. I don't like it but I can't change it either. If it helps any, I have only had one drive to ever fail on me. It was a WD and was pretty old. It gave me enough warning to get the data off tho. We gotta love that. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!