On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/03 10:52 , Josh Malone wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve :) >> >> I've taken to hitting my disks for a few hours with either the IBM/hitachi >> disk-fitness test or seatools before deploying them. > > I had a period of time where I bought a bunch of external USB/Firewire > drives, of all different brands; and I found that fully half of them would > die after having bonnie++ run on them for a day or less. this included a > really expensive shock-mounted ultra-high-speed drive.
I found in mytest that around 20% of new drives will even not pass smart long test :( -- -- Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
