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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:08:54
Message-Id: 201208080006.21955.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive by Mark Knecht
1 On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 > Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of
4 > months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ...
5
6 I wonder. Does anyone here know what most often causes HD failure after
7 a couple of months? I imagine it's some component whose material is
8 substandard, in which case it might show up with smartclt or it might
9 not. I dunno.
10
11 --
12 Rgds
13 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>