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What do you gain if you abuse your drive so hard that its lifetime is |
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severly impacted? |
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Am 06.08.2012 11:47 schrieb "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com>: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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> > Howdy, |
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> > I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I |
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> > have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of |
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> > it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. |
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> > Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make sure it is up |
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> > to the task before putting my data on it. It's going to be so much |
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> > data, there is really no way to do back-ups at this point. Come on, 2 |
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> > to 3Tbs on 4Gb DVDs. Really? lol Maybe a external drive later on but |
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> > for now, well. |
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> > I have heard of bonnie and friends. I also think dd could do some |
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> > testing too. Is there any other way to give this a good work and see if |
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> > it holds up? Oh, helpful hints with Bonnie would be great too. I have |
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> > never used it before. Maybe someone has some test that is really brutal. |
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> > Thanks |
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> > Dale |
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> > :-) :-) |
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> > |
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> I seem to have got a few really good responses to my question. Since I |
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> really want to test this drive really hard, I'll try them all. lol If |
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> it survives a few runs of all this, maybe it is going to live. Like the |
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> one with the script too. May have to edit for my needs but certainly a |
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> GREAT start. |
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> While at it, I found a lot of references to the flood in Japan or I |
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> assume it was Japan. Anyone think this could still be a problem? |
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> Should they all be flushed out of the system by now? Pardon the flush |
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> term there. ;-) |
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> Linky: |
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> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1310560&CatId=4357 |
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> Please, no hard drive brand flame wars. Seagates fail, WD fails, they |
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> all fail at some point. We all know that already. This is what I got |
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> so it is what it is. :-D That is why I want to test this thing like a |
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> wild man BEFORE putting anything on it. If it has a issue, hopefully |
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> the test will bring that to the front now instead of later. |
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> Waiting on Wednesday to get here now. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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> P. S. What is a good way to back up something this large BESIDES |
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> another drive the same size or larger? I thought about getting a blue |
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> ray burner but even that will take a lot of media. Another drive is all |
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> I can think of myself. |
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> -- |
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> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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> how you interpreted my words! |
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