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On Freitag 25 September 2009, Dale wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> One thing I have noticed about hard drives in my experience. When you |
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> >> plug that puppy in and power it up, let it run for a good long while. |
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> >> Overnight is good, a few days is even better, a week or more is even |
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> >> better still from the mechanical point of view. I remember this from |
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> >> when I rebuilt my Moms old motor in her car years ago. It said in the |
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> >> book and from several mechanics, once you crank it, run it for at least |
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> >> 30 minutes and at different rpms. The longer the better. It should get |
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> >> to its normal temperature before even thinking about cutting it off. Do |
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> >> NOT cut the engine off unless it is really serious. The first few |
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> >> minutes that a motor runs is crucial. If you start it and just run it a |
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> >> couple minutes, it won't ever be the same. I was also told that driving |
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> >> it is really good. |
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> >> |
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> >> I also remember this from way back when I was working on puters. I got |
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> >> a new job when winder 3.1 came out. Anyway. If a electronic device can |
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> >> survive the first couple to six months of usage, they usually last a |
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> >> while from the electronic point of view. That is short of spilling your |
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> >> beer in it or it getting hit by lightening or something like that. I |
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> >> have two 80Gb drives right now. One is a Maxtor and the other is a |
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> >> Western Digital. I bet there is a few people on this list that hate |
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> >> each one because they had one that failed. I haven't had any trouble |
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> >> with mine at all. They all fail eventually tho. I just hope one of |
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> >> mine fails when there is nothing important on it is all. ;-) |
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> >> |
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> >> Still comparing all the options. I got to start looking for a good SATA |
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> >> drive now. Just when I had a decent IDE drive all picked out too. LOL |
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> > |
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> > When you look at hard drive reviews, they tend to be either 5 stars |
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> > ("Perfect! Never a problem after 10 years!") or 0 stars ("Horrible, |
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> > died after 2 minutes! I got 2 more and they did the same thing!" etc). |
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> > I don't think there are a lot of ways for a hard drive to go bad |
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> > without it being catastrophic. Maybe bad sectors... but I consider |
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> > that catastrophic because they always seem to spread like cancer. If |
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> > there is one bad sector on a drive, I simply can't trust it. |
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> > |
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> > That being said, I've had lots of hard drives from many brands and the |
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> > best combinations of price/speed/reliability I've had is Samsung. I'm |
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> > using 6 of them right now and after 2+ years of 24/7 usage none has |
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> > died yet. I'm sure someone here will have a horror story about a |
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> > Samsung drive to add to this thread. :) |
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> I saw where the drive hours was displayed a long time ago. I thought it |
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> was hdparm that displayed that but I can't find it in the man page and |
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> -I doesn't seem to show that. Can someone tell me if there is a way to |
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> get how many hours a drive has been running? I know I saw this before |
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> but no clue where it was. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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