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On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of |
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>> months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ... |
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> I wonder. Does anyone here know what most often causes HD failure after |
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> a couple of months? I imagine it's some component whose material is |
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> substandard, in which case it might show up with smartclt or it might |
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> not. I dunno. |
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> Rgds |
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> Peter |
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This has come up before on this list I think. This is the overarching |
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sort of thinking about failure over lifetime... |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve |
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