Re: [opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-10 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eberhard Roloff wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 09:43, Robert Smits wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12:31 G T Smith wrote: Robert Smits information rather confirms what I have suspected for some time about how one

[opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 09:43, Robert Smits wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12:31 G T Smith wrote: Robert Smits information rather confirms what I have suspected for some time about how one should assess a S.M.A.R.T report, unfortunately Robert did not give a

Re: [opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 10:24, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 09:43, Robert Smits wrote: ... http://209.85.163.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf ... While this study is great, one should not forget that the google usage environment of

[opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Randall R Schulz wrote: While this study is great, one should not forget that the google usage environment of hundreds of thousands disks is not directly comparable to what most people do at work or at home. I.e. most people do not work in air-conditioned data centers and most desktops do

Re: [opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Robert Smits
On November 9, 2007 10:24:20 am Eberhard Roloff wrote: While this study is great, one should not forget that the google usage environment of hundreds of thousands disks is not directly comparable to what most people do at work or at home. I.e. most people do not work in air-conditioned data