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On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it. |
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Of course... |
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> I just |
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> want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of |
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> use. |
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But what you don't know about those failed drives is whether the user |
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could have predicted it by watching the smartctl data more closely. |
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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 in which case the |
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user could have transferred data to a new drive. |
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Keep in mind, that's all you're talking about here. You don't want to |
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spend the money for a second drive, but you know you'll have to do |
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_something_ if the drive starts failing. Not having backups isn't a |
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good plan... |
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Take care, |
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Mark |
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