David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes: > On 02/04/17 07:18, Ric Moore wrote: >> I'm looking at a Seagate 750 gig drive that went south on me with a pile >> of errors. Good luck getting Seagate to give a good gosh darn. In the >> past I have had mixed results replacing the drive motherboard. I saved >> two out of three. I doubt I will buy anything Seagate makes in the >> future. > > Everything electrical and mechanical fails. It's just a question of > when, followed by whether or not you're prepared. > > > I've found (and heard) that the worst thing I can do to a HDD is put > it on the shelf and let it rot. I've had more than a few that failed > shortly after being put into a computer.
I hadn't heard this... I've got a drive I've been keeping as a cold spare. Am I better off (in the sense of "is it more likely to actually be useable when I need it") installing it and adding it to one of my RAID1 arrays? Can you point me to an article about it?
