-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06.08.2012 12:14, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> What do you gain if you abuse your drive so hard that its >> lifetime is severly impacted? >> > > That if it has a problem that will cause it to fail soon in it's > life, then I can find it soon. Remember that curve about failures? > I would like to get past that first part of the curve. Maybe by > the time I get to the later part, I'll have another drive or some > backup scheme. Most the failures I have read about in reviews for > this drive were early or was just plain old DOA. Testing it will > get me past that. I'd rather it fail before I get my data on it > instead of after. > > I thought I posted why I wanted to do this in my first post. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Why not simply get you data on it and use it for about 2 weeks? Maybe you should mirror important stuff to the old drive for that time. After about 2 weeks of normal usage you should be well out of the beginnig of that bathtub curve (I always had problems when copying data to the new drive when I had a bad one, except DOA of course). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQH6ESAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYc1f0IAK/UpzNp/r4KBYczYIc9jKmJ 3JBvtCWPZkJ1qRXfZtErTk/oamPa+/iapJSoaoj4p45Uvjq5Qh5WDXiAlZs3U805 X1nCc9OMfKc3KGK3bcSKLhSIA1oV1imdgq1OqH/NeioEqOuVy56ZOdvwq6ml2fwM 1ZjBjsp1uqirork5eyZcJGGoNcsJpX3DvTZ7tBwM0gDFHcu4Yj3alEy7PgiYny4W z0/K91jnyBouX7+CwtWKvGNgjGqMxXXp4SUS4MuOKs06p4LFKi/gHBRCAYjuTRK1 O3cKfz4nHMI+F2rH48sCAUgT5K88cdiX40lZpqTWyqADUQO9F1ZzTcg4fZW447s= =s524 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----