How do I Maintain hard disk health

[fredex]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:47:26AM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote:
> Well, there's SMARTD.  I haven't used it.  I'm thinking about starting
> though.  
> 
> It used to be that IDE hard drive failures were a rarity.  In the last
> couple of months or so, I've seen 3 drives die.  One was a couple months
> old. (hitachi deskstar 61GB) The other two were 2 years old.
> Interestingly, they were both Western Digital 20GB drives in a hardware
> raid1 configuration.  They failed within a couple of weeks of each
> other.  They both show to be dead even when put into a totally different
> machine, and new drives in the original machine fixed the problems, so I
> don't think its a controller issue.
> 
> In my own personal machines, I have always used Maxtors and never had a
> single failure, though.
> 
> Anyone having similar experiences?

We've got a bunch of maxtors around here, and there are also a bunch
at work. So far this year I've seen 4 or 5 of 'em die within the 3-year
warranty (note that their warranty is now 1 year on most drives), though
there are several more approaching 3 years that are still humming along.

> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 08:34 -0700, Michael Marsh wrote:
> > Help!
> > 
> > I run fedora as a samba server and have just recovered from my second
> > hard disk crash in only 8 months.  Is there a way that i can monitor
> > and fix hard disk health between disasters?
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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