On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of >> months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ... > > I wonder. Does anyone here know what most often causes HD failure after > a couple of months? I imagine it's some component whose material is > substandard, in which case it might show up with smartclt or it might > not. I dunno. > > -- > Rgds > Peter >
This has come up before on this list I think. This is the overarching sort of thinking about failure over lifetime... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
