Bill Davidsen spake thusly:
> Scott Beamer wrote:
[......]
>
> To avoid munging by mailer, this would have been a nice attach. Just a
> thought.
Attachments are "no-nos" on lists such as this. What I should have done
is use a Pastebin. I'll remember that in the future.
Sorry for the mess.
[......]
>
> That's reasonable, if it isn't growing. But any bad spots are
> reallocated by testing before you get the drive, so the original count
> has been zero on my Seagate and WD drives. Don't have anything else
> spinning to check over the long holiday.
So it's not at all unusual for a drive to arrive this way out of the box
(sorta like a new LCD with dead pixels)?
[.....]
>
> I confess I would not use that drive for anything critical, too much ECC
> for my taste. Google wrote a paper on matching SMART to failures, and
> concluded that it wasn't helpful in general. Errors somewhat predicted
> bad performance, but many drive fail hard without warning.
Well I'd be plenty pissed off if it did die. I could live without must
of the data but I'd rather not. Fortunately the pricey data was just
backed up a few days ago to a DVD+R (Amazon.com mp3 collection).
>
> In looking at my own numbers I just scheduled a drive for redeploy, I
> have a favorable money to time ratio at the moment. ;-)
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't quite get what you are saying here.
Hopefully I can accomplish a backup and drive replacements before I lose
this one. The hardware needed was just ordered today and is supposed to
be here next week.
I used to have a couple of external drives, but naturally they failed.
I had no hard drive troubles for 10 years. The last 4 have more than
made up for that.
I've been getting these warnings for weeks, so hopefully it will hang on
a big longer.
Thanks.
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