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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:31:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C49744.5090308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761q3bbl1.fsf@nyu.edu>

On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for
> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail.

Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail
gradually/gracefully.  They all just stop working, usually when I power
the machine on for the first time in the morning.

What warning is the disk giving you of early failure?




  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-01 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-01 22:07 [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk gottlieb
2014-01-01 22:31 ` walt [this message]
2014-01-01 23:28   ` [gentoo-user] " gottlieb
2014-01-01 23:47     ` Dale
2014-01-01 23:59       ` gottlieb
2014-01-03  1:15     ` walt
2014-01-03 14:37       ` gottlieb
2014-01-02  0:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Frey
2014-01-02  2:05   ` gottlieb
2014-01-02  8:13 ` Helmut Jarausch
2014-01-02 16:29   ` gottlieb

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