war story: another disk problem

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 12/21/2013 04:09 PM, William Park wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 03:09:07PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> On rebooting (perhaps after a cooling of period) the disk seemed fine.
>> SMART testing showed nothing remarkable.
> I've never had SMART telling me a disk had problem, but the disks died
> or were dying anyways.  I have same situtation with Hitachi 3TB.  Heat
> seems to be the biggest factor.  So, I've relegated it to backup (part
> of multiple backups, of course), where it's on for short duration.

I've had two Western Digital drives inform me of impending failure via
SMART.

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Clifford Ilkay

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