From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P5XeA-0005tO-Hx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:43:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9A01E0907; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8A5E0907 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so3897735iwn.40 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:43:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jeSCJy4c8N3ljOf41Bn8cZGpo+fsjYNa7UtmyfDESYI=; b=EIsm0EQL7DeaSdUtUQ4M9IDdiIhMTrY7dIG3jBk9gCO+e9GHxtButS4rRycbkIhFpx nRuQ50qmEN6PGhIqHQszFZwsdrpG/m+yEpu8NPWVNcSWoZlI+8zpNUuYVuyMV+sGsOOZ Ng2wHZ7owYGg4aSnC2SUclMBjzJVTEra+D8vM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=LXaFBoUgwMI3JT3n7RXzwiwNBWPxkQiCVMVYNnRlPzmFpVAkGkhXHGt2b3vzaygS8t q6o14IVB4zQIRv0bHQElZyo/n5VIxDS+fEEOGTqvidnvBMAMVQJT4YWE4fYa1ILbVw0D vfzdCQ21jo2aTHLzk2ntevgdtUn4tSEcpib8s= Received: by 10.42.103.14 with SMTP id k14mr2234065ico.267.1286862179968; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:42:59 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: fthtmn@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.19.71 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:42:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fatih_T=FCmen?= Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:42:29 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0jloF8xIDYQGwtK9loV-yl2_9c8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 035cc304-d57b-4f3e-b0ae-3eff3f5e5172 X-Archives-Hash: 8698a0f62fe016cd947ed7b511b551ac On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 11 Oct 2010, at 12:51, Fatih T=FCmen wrote: >> ... >> P.S. Would you recommend against 7200rpm usb 2.5" disks? > > I'm aware of no reason to do so. > > Typically usb 2.5" disks can be powered off the USB cable, which is much = more portable than the PSU required by external USB 3.5" drives. > Perhaps there a bit noisier and shortening battery life? > I would guess that most drives are generally about as reliable as each ot= her. They are inherently at risk from mechanical failure, but some succumb = within weeks of purchase, others not after a decade - it's just a matter of= pot luck (which is why backups are so important). > I would love to see a decade. This one could not make it 5, but the other one I got is alive for 7 years. -- Fatih