Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:51:32 +0100 From: "Daniel A." <alive@dienub.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Cc: chris.eubank@gov.bc.ca, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, william.parr@gov.bc.ca Subject: Re: Coincidence Message-ID: <45C36C14.8040704@dienub.org> In-Reply-To: <200702021621.l12GLERH018356@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <200702021621.l12GLERH018356@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <20070202150548.GS12602@over-yonder.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" > writes > : >> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:35:16AM -0800 I heard the voice of >> Cy Schubert, and lo! it spake thus: >>> The one drive in front of me has a manufacture date of 21APR2001. >>> That's a long life for a disk drive. May both drives rest in peace. >> ACK! >> >> Please don't say that where my ~10 year old drives can hear you :( > > I do have a full height 9 GB Seagate SCSI in a P150-S which is ~10-12 years > old and still spinning (and still sounding like a jet engine). Good genes, > I guess. > > All my other drives are spinning at half speed in respect for the two which > have passed on. > > (Sorry, forgot to CC) On the note of dying hard drives, I come to think of one particular drive that I'm using in my server right now. It's a 120GB Maxtor drive. Not old, but this story is worh it. One day, my server had crashed on me. I had a faulty CPU at that time. When I tried to turn my server back on, the machine just hung, and the drive was saying little "click click click click" noises. "Oh no!", I thought to myself, "All my PORN!?" Could it really be that I had been subjected to the click of death? In despair, I turned off the box, and let it stay powered off in my closet for a whole, full week. So, I came back from work one night, and decided to check if the drive was really dead. I turned on the box, and it booted! All my files were in place, no damages had happened. The drive has been working flawlessly ever since, except now I use a seagate as my main system disk, and the Maxtor as /home.
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