On 04/25/11 17:36, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as > NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is > failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors. > There are no messages in /var/log/messages indicating any failures. > Why is smartd claiming the disk is bad? This is the second drive (also > a Seagate Go) that I get reports that the drive is failing less than a > year after buying the drive. I can't believe that a drive would go bad > after a few months use. I have other Seagate drives that have been in > use for years without any issues. The problem seems to be specific to > drives that are powered via USB. > > Any assistance in the matter is appreciated. > > Paolo The worst problem with these drives is that they are not ventilated, so they do get hot in that tiny enclosure. The second problem is that these external drives DO receive lots of accidental tips, shakes (hitting the table accidentally with your chair's armrests, or bumping bumping the table with your foot....etc.). That makes them very unreliable. I do have an external 1.5TB drive. It has a 3 inch fan that keeps it as cool as a cucumber. I have not had any problems with it at all. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
