[mythtv-users] OT: Interesting study on HDD failure by Google labs

[Richard Stanaford]

> ."
> >
> At work (where dozens of drives have died before retiring them) we
> have not had smart ever warn us of a drive about to die and smart is
> enabled on most of our drives and systems. When we were lucky we were
> able to hear the drive acting up and catch it in time to make a copy
> of the drive but this probably will be harder since drives are a lot
> quieter now then they were 3 years ago. This along with the reduced
> quality of current drives (compared to when they were > $300US) has
> made me install raid5 or 6 on all my servers.
>
> John



Funny,

I took a stroll through the Event Viewer of one of my desktop  machines
still running WinXP.  I saw some errors there that the disk attached to a
certain controller was about to fail.

I'll be darned if it wasn't actually right.  I ended up rebuiding that box
three weeks later.
-Rich
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