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Halph-Price
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Muad'Dib
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Something that checks up with SMART hard-drive capabilities.
http://www.panterasoft.com/
go at the bottom, the HDD Health program.
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27-02-2009 19:50 |
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thechronic
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Hard drives have a built in diagnostics system called SMART which is intended to discover when a disaster is looming. Unfortunately in my experience it does not work very well. It may report that everything is perfectly fine, and the drive may break down 10 minutes later.
Best thing is to make regular backups and don't put your trust in diagnostics.
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27-02-2009 21:34 |
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Muad'Dib
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Originally posted by thechronic
Hard drives have a built in diagnostics system called SMART which is intended to discover when a disaster is looming. Unfortunately in my experience it does not work very well. It may report that everything is perfectly fine, and the drive may break down 10 minutes later.
Best thing is to make regular backups and don't put your trust in diagnostics. |
Yeah, was about to say the same 
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27-02-2009 23:02 |
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optikal_assassin
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28-02-2009 00:47 |
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Originally posted by Halph-Price
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Dude wtf? lol
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28-02-2009 08:51 |
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optikal_assassin
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28-02-2009 19:11 |
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Halph-Price
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hate to be the one who would have to backup a 1TB full drive. 
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that's why you run a RAID 5 setup and you don't have to back-up. it does it for you. |
yeah i'm still pretty new to the whole RAID thing. right now i got an internal 1TB drive and since reading about RAID i've been thinking of getting a second identical drive. i think then i would feel a hell of a lot less nervous about storing my life on it. 
i hear though you need to have a RAID controller which has to be purchased seperately, but i don't know anything about them. 
guess i got a lot to learn.
edit: yeah appears you have to have a minimum of 3 drives to run a RAID configuration and overall seems to be a pretty expensive thing to do. blehh.
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you can do a RAID 2 setup, it just if one drive goes down then you'll only lose partial amount, with a 3 raid setup if one goes, you still have 100% data integrity. so still not a horrible idea.
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01-03-2009 01:25 |
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PEAHEAD
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If it ticks and clicks its FuKK*d
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