[Sussex] hard disk analysis tools

[Andy Smith]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:24:08AM +0100, Mike Diack wrote:
> Back up the drive urgently before you even worry about anything like the 
> SMART status
> 
> Exactly. If a hard drive is making bad noises, back it up 1st. Mine failed 
> last year this way. If it's making noises, it might well have < 1 hr's life 
> left - mine did.

Obviously you already have backups so the worst that can happen is a
degraded RAID array, right? :)

Cheers,
Andy

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