On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Dale wrote: > gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: >> >>> On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>>> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for >>>> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. >>> Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail >>> gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power >>> the machine on for the first time in the morning. >>> >>> What warning is the disk giving you of early failure? >> First it wouldn't mount in during startup. >> >> Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. >> It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. >> >> Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. >> >> allan >> >> > Can you check it with smartmontools? I guess if it can't be mounted > tho, it doesn't really matter about the rest. That sort of makes it > hard to rescue the data on it. > > Dale
The important data on the disk is also on another computer (or two). I do want to buy the replacement disk to again have redundancy. allan
