On 05/03 10:52 , Josh Malone wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve  :)
> 
> I've taken to hitting my disks for a few hours with either the IBM/hitachi
> disk-fitness test or seatools before deploying them.
 
I had a period of time where I bought a bunch of external USB/Firewire
drives, of all different brands; and I found that fully half of them would
die after having bonnie++ run on them for a day or less. this included a
really expensive shock-mounted ultra-high-speed drive.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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