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On Monday 06 Aug 2012 11:48:50 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: |
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> On 06.08.2012 12:14, Dale wrote: |
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> > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >> What do you gain if you abuse your drive so hard that its |
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> >> lifetime is severly impacted? |
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> > |
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> > That if it has a problem that will cause it to fail soon in it's |
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> > life, then I can find it soon. Remember that curve about failures? |
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> > I would like to get past that first part of the curve. Maybe by |
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> > the time I get to the later part, I'll have another drive or some |
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> > backup scheme. Most the failures I have read about in reviews for |
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> > this drive were early or was just plain old DOA. Testing it will |
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> > get me past that. I'd rather it fail before I get my data on it |
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> > instead of after. |
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> > |
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> > I thought I posted why I wanted to do this in my first post. |
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> > |
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> > Dale |
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> > |
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> > :-) :-) |
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> |
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> Why not simply get you data on it and use it for about 2 weeks? Maybe |
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> you should mirror important stuff to the old drive for that time. |
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> |
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> After about 2 weeks of normal usage you should be well out of the |
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> beginnig of that bathtub curve (I always had problems when copying |
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> data to the new drive when I had a bad one, except DOA of course). |
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The 'Conveyance self-test routine' of smartmontools will check for damage |
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during physical transport. If it is completely DOA, then that ought to be |
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obvious I guess. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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