Mick wrote: > On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 05:44:38 Dale wrote: >> >> >> What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm >> thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test >> every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of >> testing? I realize no one knows with 100% certainty but I would like to >> backup my data say every couple weeks just in case. If the drive works, >> fine. If it fails, well, it wouldn't be the first time and it won't be >> a primary drive so no big loss. >> >> I got to find me a good drive for backups tho. I'm waiting on a good >> sale of a brand other than Seagate tho. That should help keep two >> drives from failing at the same time. Well, a little anyway. I think >> it is called Dale's Law now. ;-) > > I'm not sure what it is called, but it seems infectious! I have a drive (in a > laptop) which I recently zeroed out with dd and fsck -c for good measure, > before I installed gentoo on it. Yesterday, I tried a long test, but it won't > complete. It reached "10% remaining" and it stayed there for a few hours. I > will repeat the test to see if it gets through this time, but I am worried > that it's on its way out. > > Oh well, I may install an SSD if it fails. >
That's seems to be normal at least for me. Mine has certain percentages that it just seems to sit at for a good while. It eventually passes the test tho. Just leave it overnight and check it the next morning or something. I know laptops are different but got to do what you got to do. Maybe pluging it into a desktop or something would help. Dale :-) :-)
