On Tue, February 23, 2010 5:43 pm, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> While I run smartd in monitor mode, I've never had it give me a
> useful pre-failure alert. Likewise, I've never had the SMART health check
> in PC BIOSes give me a useful pre-failure alert. More than once I've seen
> SMART report the ov
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Huh -- I actually *have* had SMART tell me things were awry, several
> times.
Well, that's good to know. :)
Just curious, did you get a chance to see if any of them actually
started failing soon after?
Like I said, I did have one c
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> > Huh -- I actually *have* had SMART tell me things were awry, several
> > times.
>
> Well, that's good to know. :)
>
> Just curious, did you get a chance to see if any of them ac
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> They found little difference between enterprise and consumer grade lifetimes.
That doesn't surprise me. They're often the exact same hard disk
assembly, just with different firmware, or maybe a different PCB.
Despire marketing claims to the
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> > They found little difference between enterprise and consumer grade
> lifetimes.
>
> That doesn't surprise me. They're often the exact same hard disk
> assembly, just with different
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> Apparently, the drives could get into sync & harmonic motion with the new
> setup. We had 3-4 drive failures in one week. The new drives had different
> firmware that prevented this.
Wow. That's a great anecdote. This is why engineers dre
