On 11/16/05, Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you have a cool SAN, it alerts you and removes all data off a disk > _before_ it starts giving hard failures :-) > > /* Steinar */ > -- > Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ Good point. I have avoided data loss *twice* this year by using SMART hard drive monitoring software. I can't tell you how good it feels to replace a drive that is about to die, as compared to restoring data because a drive died. -- Matthew Nuzum www.bearfruit.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster