On Wednesday 08 August 2012 01:32:55 Mark Knecht wrote: > 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.
I must have missed it then. > This is the overarching sort of thinking about failure over > lifetime... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve Yes, I'm familiar with that idea thanks. I was wondering what specific causes were most implicated. -- Rgds Peter
