From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: eazgwmir@umail.furryterror.org (Zygo Blaxell) Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution Date: 27 Jan 2003 18:34:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20030127055331.E976@humilis> <20030127055331.E976@humilis> <20030127100349.B22720@namesys.com> Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com In article <20030127100349.B22720@namesys.com>, Oleg Drokin wrote: >I bought IBM DTLA-307030 made in Hungary 2 years ago. >It is still working (though it already have ~1500 bad sectors remapped) >aside of making unusual noises when remapping bad sectors ;) >I may be just lucky. >Also I try to run it in cool environment, so that may help it too. Indeed, IBM's disks do work a little better if they are aggressively cooled. I went looking for where our surviving 4 disks went and it turns out that they found homes in desktops. They'll last for several months longer (and counting) if you put a powerful fan on top of them. Still, most other disk brands don't need a dedicated cooling fan just to work properly in a single-disk configuration, and usually more than 100 bad sectors remapped after purchase is a sign of imminent total failure. -- Zygo Blaxell (Laptop) GPG = D13D 6651 F446 9787 600B AD1E CCF3 6F93 2823 44AD