On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 09:42:39 Dale wrote: > 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.
I've restarted it and will leave it all day today to see what gives. -- Regards, Mick
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