4 Sep
2012
4 Sep
'12
11:51 p.m.
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Hollandia at ccountry.net wrote:
Will someone name a program that will do
"checkup" on a hard drive, that
could warn of an impending failure?
Thanks,
Kurt
The first person who comes up with a way to reliably predict drive failure
would become an overnight billionaire.
Even Google doesn't have all the answers...
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub32774.html
http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
It was discovered however that drives don't like being shouted at...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
http://blogs.oracle.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPozJFC8g0
http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/the_making_of_shouting_in
Of course not all drives die of natural causes...
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74331808/large-rare-1984-seagate-hard-drive-now…
Mmmm popcorn...