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

[John Drescher]

>> 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