[Wiltshire] Suspect hard drive infant mortality

[David Fletcher]

On Sun, 2020-11-29 at 14:59 +0000, Simon Iremonger via Wiltshire wrote:
> Not surprised if re-installed and fully updated, then behaves.....
> Kernel changes and so-on!.
> 
> Still, I would  apt-get install memtest86+  and then the grub
> boot menu [at least on bios/legacy install] will have memtest option
> in any case!.
> 
> I would definitely memtest machine in any case...  Somebody on IRC
> with linuxmint problems and weird sd-card filesystem-corruption etc
> simply has a machine with RAM-errors!.
> 
> --Simon

Sounds like good advice. Perhaps there is nothing wrong with the drive
I took out. If so I can certainly use it for a bigger backup storage
device in a USB-3 housing.

Dave