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 0B77C13800E for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 00:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE3E5E096A; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 00:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f181.google.com (mail-qc0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069C0E068E for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 00:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcpx40 with SMTP id x40so132217qcp.40 for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:32:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Y+6rTjrg/aApmEpYjlREs5NPFrO7SRunrsAnE+CcKbU=; b=Ka8XENNmgSLKYKskjTZxJ7EfIsMkWFFoTDG/YW9nmk0iQ4J6wWgIwYvk3CTzs4/D77 ZaRTKK7bf1FGPSTLWHK7+ij7Dzrpnx1h2eu2Rc4qIz2rODZv/xLvF8ghuIXCfSjsNPhJ toj2JaBfKu8lL/vS03FqBfQp8YNx6bpPnCI5bth0WoptisKtAZj1gksKSU7VhW7y6Q1F 4wDQBjAjY6frW3ZUSnclZXq/mIXVMA39Z8NpeAjlQonZQ1vFaW9GCWIAZ/ln72phjmhM bWEo81EpJvZ6gyiVWyRUfbUK2Wj4xB3qgARtBxX5z3rBxioOKt3LgLFfZJRSe6m4gHzZ f+fA== 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 Received: by 10.224.59.199 with SMTP id m7mr27130838qah.13.1344385975559; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:32:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.190.196 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:32:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201208080006.21955.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <501E6AFA.4000205@gmail.com> <50219626.5010806@gmail.com> <201208080006.21955.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:32:55 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 6f406541-2590-47ee-8cad-22fb7e4a2cc3 X-Archives-Hash: 675d22af74cfa1303064052910fb070b On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of >> months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ... > > I wonder. Does anyone here know what most often causes HD failure after > a couple of months? I imagine it's some component whose material is > substandard, in which case it might show up with smartclt or it might > not. I dunno. > > -- > Rgds > Peter > This has come up before on this list I think. This is the overarching sort of thinking about failure over lifetime... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve