On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it.
Of course... > I just > want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of > use. But what you don't know about those failed drives is whether the user could have predicted it by watching the smartctl data more closely. Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output in which case the user could have transferred data to a new drive. Keep in mind, that's all you're talking about here. You don't want to spend the money for a second drive, but you know you'll have to do _something_ if the drive starts failing. Not having backups isn't a good plan... Take care, Mark
