[LUNI] Re: Testing IDE drives

[Keith T. Garner]

On 9/3/07 4:17 PM, David Gibbs wrote:
> Keith T. Garner wrote:
>> Surprisingly, SMART actually did work for me once.  My main server box at home
>> started reporting "the drive will die within 24 hours" so I stayed up that
>> night and transfered stuff over, and just as I finishing the transfer, it
>> totally gave up the ghost.  So its not completely worthless.  :)
> 
> I don't rely on SMART ... I don't trust it.  More often than not, my
> ears* have told me a drive is failing.  This is why I backup my critical
> data to a tarball on a USB drive every night ... and then, on my
> critical system, I dump the tarball to a DDS4 tape.

I didn't mean to imply I don't do backups, I just didn't feel like
completely reinstalling, so I didn't have to.  5 times a week amanda tosses
everything important onto DLT for me.

Keith

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 Keith T. Garner                                        kgarner at kgarner.com
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