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 2A2831393DD for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 191ABE093B; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f45.google.com (mail-yh0-f45.google.com [209.85.213.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1976BE08EE for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f45.google.com with SMTP id t59so1286503yho.18 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:00:26 -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:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yx3k0/486V0JGs3NcpOzhNGzlzhv4MtssDagTOQjqIQ=; b=iCKGTghn+u7YKM3ekvmmzL3tA7if0cJi1D0cnsZAjMpIcJFly/V0VHKn4qLpG7OmhD WBdQ8ZEFEg/0JGUHoOpnDxhxEDYa0IaU6P7RQV9aL/bxneRryWfMTQRtICJMEREdvZVh YIpQa4vZv3/pJch7enJvwxMJ2Q5JG8+0rmlhlAR0fUfQhoC2tuOhKtSf3IVrLHNrE5rG bprpj120V4KgXyD35cQ6dc2o+1dnTohH7pt2EtP1A8i8jiBSlTMuDAV2dR5tmoo9kUBX EG0KwfukgwuVuDZNLTU1MDFp2C2YwEOhulue6N220wTKoAPL2nN0M9uReEEgyVn0kLLg G8bQ== X-Received: by 10.236.47.201 with SMTP id t49mr12736325yhb.123.1403712026152; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:00:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-120-204.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.120.204]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o42sm5672004yhe.51.2014.06.25.09.00.25 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53AAF218.6010402@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:00:24 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25 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] smartctrl drive error @60% References: <53AA050F.4070907@gmail.com> <49620f42-d9c3-43b1-9f01-1250e52eb950@email.android.com> <53AA587F.8090300@gmail.com> <20140625104639.71528ad6@digimed.co.uk> <53AA9ED7.2060700@gmail.com> <53AAAA8C.8050301@thegeezer.net> <20140625152315.6bb465f7@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c62a856b-9d58-4432-a085-5afcde8507e5 X-Archives-Hash: c672b7caf79ea112370454b760140996 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:33:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >>> Typically drives tend to die for me about a year after I buy them - >>> alarmingly often, actually. >> Do you have a UPS? I used to get similar levels of failure, and not just >> drives,then I bought a UPS and things got much better. It seems the mains >> supply here is not as stable as it should be. > I do not, and I can't say I was terribly thrilled with the performance > with the last cheap UPS I bought. > > The price to do it right tends to be moderately high, so it hasn't > been a priority. Perhaps I should look into it again. > > Rich > > . > I have had two CyberPower UPS's and been happy with them. Both still work but had to put in a set of batteries in the older one. Old one runs my TV during those frequent blinks we get here and the new one runs my puter. I usually catch them on sale for a little over $100 here. I want to get two more at some point. One for my Mom's TV and one for my sis-n-law's puter. Out of all the hard drives I have ever had, only one has failed. The smart software gave me enough warning to copy the stuff over. Maybe me having a UPS has helped on that. No way to prove it either way tho. Dale :-) :-)