On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:01:32PM +1100, James Harper wrote: > The first USB backup completed after about 36 hours and then the > drive failed completely (won't even spin up) 2 hours later. It's a > 2TB drive (1TB would have worked with about 2GB to spare!) and cost > about AUD$235.
I highly recommend, when you buy a consumer-grade disk, that you test it before using it. The Linux "badblocks" command is adequate for this. I've seen as high as 50% failure with a certain model of disks during the initial badblocks pass. It was kinda shocking. - Morty ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
