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On Wednesday 08 August 2012 01:32:55 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey |
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<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 |
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> >> of 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 |
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> > after a couple of months? I imagine it's some component whose |
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> > material is substandard, in which case it might show up with |
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> > smartclt or it might not. I dunno. |
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> > -- |
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> > Rgds |
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> > Peter |
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> This has come up before on this list I think. |
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I must have missed it then. |
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> This is the overarching sort of thinking about failure over |
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> lifetime... |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve |
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Yes, I'm familiar with that idea thanks. I was wondering what specific |
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causes were most implicated. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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