> > > Thanks. I am running this on 1 year old hardware on a wholly-encrypted C > > drive, encrypted with TrueCrypt. I suspect that I would have been alerted > > already with that or SMART if I had hardware issues? > > That sounds excessively optimistic -- not necessarily a good > characteristic on a database administrator. >
Which is why I could never be a DBA. :-) I am the only user. This is for my doctoral research project. Aren