> 
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:01:32PM +1100, James Harper wrote:
> 
> > The first USB backup completed after about 36 hours and then the
> > drive failed completely (won't even spin up) 2 hours later. It's a
> > 2TB drive (1TB would have worked with about 2GB to spare!) and cost
> > about AUD$235.
> 
> I highly recommend, when you buy a consumer-grade disk, that you test
> it before using it.  The Linux "badblocks" command is adequate for
> this.  I've seen as high as 50% failure with a certain model of disks
> during the initial badblocks pass.  It was kinda shocking.
> 

I don't think there were any bad blocks, it appeared to be a motor
failure. I could hear the motor try and spin up but not quite get there.
When I tried it again later it didn't even do that.

Bad blocks can definitely be a problem, but it wasn't this problem.

James

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