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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">>> This isn't one of those Hiesenberg things, is it? Could it be the<br>
>> disks all run merrily along *until* you run smartctl against them?<br>
><br>
> No. I just let some drives run until they died because they didn't<br>
> hold anything important. I only started monitoring some of my disks<br>
> because of Seagate's big problems about 3 years ago.<br>
><br>
> I kept an eye on stuff I didn't want to lose. I was trying to stay<br>
> a step ahead of the spinny disk grim reaper.<br>
><br>
> I have 2 drives from Seagate's notorious period currently on deathwatch.<br>
><br>
> My newer Seagate drives appear to be fine despite being monitored.<br>
<br>
</div>At work I monitor ~ 100 hard drives. looking at 4 different smart<br>
parameters. I have done this for ~3 years. I do this with the help of<br>
nagios. Usually when a drive get to my nagios warning level it has<br>
about 1 week left in it before total death.<br>
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