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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 05:44:38 Dale wrote: |
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>> What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm |
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>> thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test |
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>> every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of |
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>> testing? I realize no one knows with 100% certainty but I would like to |
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>> backup my data say every couple weeks just in case. If the drive works, |
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>> fine. If it fails, well, it wouldn't be the first time and it won't be |
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>> a primary drive so no big loss. |
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>> I got to find me a good drive for backups tho. I'm waiting on a good |
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>> sale of a brand other than Seagate tho. That should help keep two |
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>> drives from failing at the same time. Well, a little anyway. I think |
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>> it is called Dale's Law now. ;-) |
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> I'm not sure what it is called, but it seems infectious! I have a |
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drive (in a |
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> laptop) which I recently zeroed out with dd and fsck -c for good measure, |
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> before I installed gentoo on it. Yesterday, I tried a long test, but |
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it won't |
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> complete. It reached "10% remaining" and it stayed there for a few |
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hours. I |
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> will repeat the test to see if it gets through this time, but I am |
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worried |
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> that it's on its way out. |
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> Oh well, I may install an SSD if it fails. |
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That's seems to be normal at least for me. Mine has certain percentages |
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that it just seems to sit at for a good while. It eventually passes the |
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test tho. Just leave it overnight and check it the next morning or |
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something. I know laptops are different but got to do what you got to |
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do. Maybe pluging it into a desktop or something would help. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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