On Monday 06 Aug 2012 11:48:50 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On 06.08.2012 12:14, Dale wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> What do you gain if you abuse your drive so hard that its > >> lifetime is severly impacted? > > > > That if it has a problem that will cause it to fail soon in it's > > life, then I can find it soon. Remember that curve about failures? > > I would like to get past that first part of the curve. Maybe by > > the time I get to the later part, I'll have another drive or some > > backup scheme. Most the failures I have read about in reviews for > > this drive were early or was just plain old DOA. Testing it will > > get me past that. I'd rather it fail before I get my data on it > > instead of after. > > > > I thought I posted why I wanted to do this in my first post. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > Why not simply get you data on it and use it for about 2 weeks? Maybe > you should mirror important stuff to the old drive for that time. > > After about 2 weeks of normal usage you should be well out of the > beginnig of that bathtub curve (I always had problems when copying > data to the new drive when I had a bad one, except DOA of course).
The 'Conveyance self-test routine' of smartmontools will check for damage during physical transport. If it is completely DOA, then that ought to be obvious I guess. -- Regards, Mick
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