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On 13 November 2014 19:35:57 CET, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin <at> googlemail.com> writes: |
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>> Am 13.11.2014 um 01:01 schrieb Adam Carter: |
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>> "Backblaze's analysis of nearly 40,000 drives |
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>Always suspect a vendor's purpose for fingering others. It |
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>may be valid, but often tainted. |
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>Were SSD and other storage devices included? Where operating |
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>systems were the drives used on? A myriad of parameters |
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>might be insightful....ymmv. |
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>> SMART 5 - Reallocated_Sector_Count. |
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>> SMART 187 - Reported_Uncorrectable_Errors. |
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>> SMART 188 - Command_Timeout. |
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>> SMART 197 - Current_Pending_Sector_Count. |
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>> SMART 198 - Offline_Uncorrectable" |
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>http://www.computerworld.com/article/2846009/the-5-smart-stats-that-actually-predict-hard-drive-failure.html |
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>> everybody with half a brain would figure that one out themselves. |
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>Volker is onto something here. Another consideration is which of these |
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>(maybe all 5?) can be tracked or have a module developed and included |
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>into your favorite NMS, like nagios or jffnms. Collect up the data |
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>trend it yourself and auto_generate graphs and or reports. So what |
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>is really important is which ones can be included via snmp or whatever |
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>protocol into your favorite NMS? |
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>Something that relies of something from this vendor, that is not |
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>opensource, is worthless noise, imho. |
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>hth, |
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>James |
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James, |
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Backblaze is not selling harddrives. They sell storage on their servers. |
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The data they collect is based on different drives from different manufacturers. |
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They are quite open on what they use, check out their website and blogposts. You should find the answers to your questions easily there. |
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Joost |
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