[Sussex] hard disk analysis tools

[Steve Dobbo Dobson]

Andy

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:45:59PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> 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? :)

No, the worst that could happen is that a second disk to fail (or more)
as well and then you have data loss.

Steve

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                              Steve "Dobbo" Dobson
                                steve at dobson.org
                               SussexLUG Master
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