Re: Is my hard-drive failing?

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Robert Steckroth
<robertsteckroth_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting, that makes sense. The hd is known to only last <2 years.
> Doesn't feel right using it until it is "officially" bad though.
>

A few bad sectors is not a major concern but with more or an increase
in defect rate indicates a problem. I always use RAID mirroring and a
separate backup drive, either a BackupPC volume or another mirror
drive that I temporarily join to the array then remove after its
synced.

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