Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:45:06 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: K Anderson <freebsduser@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stored hard drive failure? Message-ID: <CA9679F1-8004-4CFC-9B76-0EFB3B58A6E2@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <001f01c5c980$a3030c50$0c64a8c0@opteron> References: <000301c5c97c$5b735560$0c64a8c0@opteron> <2926BCC8-0AF2-483E-BDB1-CF2E30EC4558@shire.net> <001f01c5c980$a3030c50$0c64a8c0@opteron>
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On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:44 AM, K Anderson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> > To: "K Anderson" <freebsduser@comcast.net> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:20 AM > Subject: Re: Stored hard drive failure? > > > >> >> On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:13 AM, K Anderson wrote: >> >> >>> >>> How long can the hard drive sit on the shelf before some sort of >>> natural >>> cause that prevents it from spinning up properly? >>> >> >> How long are you storing them for? I would think that the data >> on the >> disk would quickly become out of date and stale before any physical >> issues would arise. >> > Thanks for your response, > > Not sure how long I'm storing them (See above question where I > asked -- How > long can the HD sit on the shelf... and the other questions seemed > to be > editted out). But you're right the info could become out-of-date > unless when > I did patch management then I would pull the stored HD off the > shelf and > hope that it didn't fail because of non-use and re-mirror the main > drive > then stored the secondary back on the shelf. But then that really > doens't > hit the other two questions that were editted out. > > Perhaps if somebody had experience with doing the very scenario I > thought > of. I know HDs can be touchy but how touchy can they get if they > are just > sitting on the shelf waiting for resuse and me going, darn that HD > is bad > now that it sat on the shelf for X number of [days|weeks|months| > years]. I somewhat regularly retrieve used HDs off the shelf for use in some test or project or another and never have had a problem with a relatively modern HD (like built in the last 5 years) not working, even after sitting on a shelf for 1-2 years. Is your data going to be good after 1-2 years? If you are talking weeks or months sitting there that should not be an issue with modern HD mechanisms Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net
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