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On 18/01/18 21:22, mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com wrote: |
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> if you're going with external drives use laptop drives, or build a JBOD |
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> with good cooling. in any case, monitor drive temperatures, in my |
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> experiance anything above 100F is asking for a short life, bellow or at |
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> 100F drives new and old are happy for over a decade which seems like a |
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> long time, but most of us have data on older machines with older drives |
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> somewhere in the house and most don't back that up or back it up often |
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> enough. also note that most usb adapters don't even allow smart access, |
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> so the only way to see if the drive's hot is to feel the enclosure which |
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> is not terribly accurate or usefull. it's also really nice to be able |
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> to run smart diagnostics and have the os monitor the smart status which |
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> most versions of linux will do, don't know about winblows, haven't run |
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> that since xp. |
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https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2 |
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There's an article about this on LWN, which is where I picked this up, |
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but unfortunately it's currently subscribers-only and I'm not a |
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subscriber, so I can't post a link to that. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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