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Re: [BackupPC-users] Fwd: Re: Woe is me
2010-05-03 14:53:32
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
<chrome AT real-time DOT com> wrote:
> 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.
I found in mytest that around 20% of new drives will even not pass
smart long test :(
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Michael
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