On 04/25/11 17:45, JD wrote: > 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. > I also have 2 other external drives (both 1.5Tb) that work just fine. In fact they sit right next to the Seagate Go drive. What's interesting is that when I boot to Win 7 and test the drive Windows says there are no problems (of course it is Windows so I don't necessarily trust what it tells me). I've had drives fail, but usually this is accompanied by obvious problems such as corrupted files and there tends to be kernel messages in /var/log/messages. At this point I'm not sure what to do. Paolo -- 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
