Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >> Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it. > Of course... > >> I just >> want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of >> use. > But what you don't know about those failed drives is whether the user > could have predicted it by watching the smartctl data more closely. > > Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of > months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output in which case the > user could have transferred data to a new drive. > > Keep in mind, that's all you're talking about here. You don't want to > spend the money for a second drive, but you know you'll have to do > _something_ if the drive starts failing. Not having backups isn't a > good plan... > > Take care, > Mark > >
I realize that not having backups is not good. Thing is, I really don't have a way to back up that much data. Heck, I got about 1Tb that will be transfered to the new drive when I feel it is ready. Other than a second drive, I have no means of backing up that much data. I thought about a blue ray burner but even that is a lot of media. I think I figured up over a 100. Plain DVDs are even worse. My plan is to watch the logs and buy another drive as soon as I can. In the meantime, it is what it is. I don't like it but I can't change it either. If it helps any, I have only had one drive to ever fail on me. It was a WD and was pretty old. It gave me enough warning to get the data off tho. We gotta love that. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
