>>>>> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 00:44:36 -0700, >>>>> "K Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Not sure how long I'm storing them (See above question where I asked -- How > long can the HD sit on the shelf... and the other questions seemed to be > editted out). But you're right the info could become out-of-date unless when > I did patch management then I would pull the stored HD off the shelf and > hope that it didn't fail because of non-use and re-mirror the main drive > then stored the secondary back on the shelf. But then that really doens't > hit the other two questions that were editted out. > Perhaps if somebody had experience with doing the very scenario I thought > of. I know HDs can be touchy but how touchy can they get if they are just > sitting on the shelf waiting for resuse and me going, darn that HD is bad > now that it sat on the shelf for X number of [days|weeks|months|years]. See the thread: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=642921+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20050911.freebsd-questions I have definitely noticed a higher failure rate among drives that have been stored for a number of months. I can't give you any hard numbers, nor should you really believe them even if I did, because this depends on age of the drive, model, design, etc. If you are serious about data redundancy, why not simply set up RAID 1 volumes? They will provide much better redundancy, at a minimal extra cost, and with less work required on your part to maintain the mirrors. Sandy _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"