[mythtv-users] OT: Predicted hard drive failure; replacement consideration

[James Hall]

I had a drive in my Windows 7 desktop fail on me in Feb. I think it was a
seagate actually. Windows gave me a warning one morning and by that night
it was dead. At least I got some of my least replaceable stuff off of it
first before it died. It was 4 years old at least, I should check to see if
there's a 5 year warranty and if I can get it replaced. 500gb is still not
all that cheap.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> This isn't one of those Hiesenberg things, is it? Could it be the
> >> disks all run merrily along *until* you run smartctl against them?
> >
> >    No. I just let some drives run until they died because they didn't
> > hold anything important. I only started monitoring some of my disks
> > because of Seagate's big problems about 3 years ago.
> >
> >    I kept an eye on stuff I didn't want to lose. I was trying to stay
> > a step ahead of the spinny disk grim reaper.
> >
> >    I have 2 drives from Seagate's notorious period currently on
> deathwatch.
> >
> >    My newer Seagate drives appear to be fine despite being monitored.
>
> At work I monitor ~ 100 hard drives. looking at 4 different smart
> parameters. I have done this for ~3 years. I do this with the help of
> nagios. Usually when a drive get to my nagios warning level it has
> about 1 week left in it before total death.
>
> John
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