From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:15:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C60F25.1080103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761q39t9l.fsf@nyu.edu>
On 01/01/2014 03:28 PM, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> First it wouldn't mount in during startup.
>
> Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted.
> It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses.
The open-source culture in general seems to frown upon promotion of
proprietary software (as opposed to proprietary hardware) so I usually
avoid recommending proprietary software.
But, based on reports I consider reliable (how's them for weasel words!)
I'd suggest that Spin-Rite has a chance of restoring that drive to normal
function. ("Has a chance" == more weasel words).
Anyway, consider buying Spin-Rite here:
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
My own hard drives usually fail catastrophically within the the first month,
so I just return them for replacement under warranty. But if I ever have
an older drive fail I will certainly use Spin-Rite before giving up hope.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-03 1:15 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 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2014-01-01 23:28 ` gottlieb
2014-01-01 23:47 ` Dale
2014-01-01 23:59 ` gottlieb
2014-01-03 1:15 ` walt [this message]
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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