[Linux-disciples] Lots of errors

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:16:20AM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> I've noticed lots of bad luck with these cheap 200G hard drive in the
>> last couple of years. None of them seem to last much longer than a year
>> or two.
> This isn't the 200G drive. /dev/hdd had one error that
> showed up last week, which got fixed just fine. /dev/hda is
> (gulp) the boot drive. It's oldish -- 12 gigs.

Ah, that might explain the nonstandardness in the SMART report (weird 
percentages). Older drives tend to have SMART oddities. I would 
suggest replacing, or at least supplementing with an identical copy, 
the drive right away. I have a whole bunch of spare drives probably in 
that size range, but they might be in the "bad age" category as well.

The smallest you can find on pricewatch these days is 20.0GB for $20.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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