[Sussex] hard disk analysis tools

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

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? :)
>   
Naw. Losing 38 billion dollar's of Alaska's money because you *thought* 
it was backed up, but the backups were useless, is the worst. (This 
happened to a technician who accidentally rebuilt both drives of a 
mirrored array. *Whoops!*)