From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:39:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+edT=Z5m+2bbBocm0ErPNSsoYkaT=HqnA9zXx8ZFFVc8jw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50219626.5010806@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-05 12:45 [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive Dale
2012-08-05 12:53 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-05 16:05 ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-05 20:02 ` victor romanchuk
2012-08-06 9:42 ` Dale
2012-08-06 9:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-08-06 10:14 ` Dale
2012-08-06 10:48 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-08-06 12:17 ` Mick
2012-08-06 9:57 ` Mick
2012-08-06 10:25 ` Dale
2012-08-06 11:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-06 11:25 ` Dale
2012-08-06 11:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-06 11:58 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-06 12:01 ` Mick
2012-08-06 15:17 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-07 22:26 ` Dale
2012-08-07 22:39 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2012-08-07 23:05 ` Dale
2012-08-08 0:31 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-07 23:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-08 0:32 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-08 7:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-07 23:07 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-08 2:19 ` Dale
2012-08-08 3:55 ` William Kenworthy
2012-08-08 4:18 ` Dale
2012-08-08 5:42 ` William Kenworthy
2012-08-08 6:24 ` Dale
2012-08-08 4:02 ` Adam Carter
2012-08-08 4:16 ` William Kenworthy
2012-08-08 4:21 ` Adam Carter
2012-08-08 12:10 ` Mick
2012-08-08 12:53 ` Dale
2012-08-10 13:40 ` Mick
2012-08-08 15:10 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-08 15:39 ` Dale
2012-08-09 13:30 ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-09 13:53 ` Dale
2012-08-09 15:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-08 14:48 ` Ricardo Jesus
2012-08-08 18:02 ` Dale
2012-08-08 18:25 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-08 22:09 ` Dale
2012-08-09 3:22 ` Dale
2012-08-09 6:13 ` Yohan Pereira
2012-08-09 6:31 ` Dale
2012-08-09 8:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-09 9:35 ` Dale
2012-08-09 10:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-09 12:02 ` Dale
2012-08-10 8:53 ` Dale
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