From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 14:45:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28CFD16A420 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:45:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E30043D8A for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:45:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1ENAW3-000JYO-RH; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:45:08 -0600 In-Reply-To: <001f01c5c980$a3030c50$0c64a8c0@opteron> References: <000301c5c97c$5b735560$0c64a8c0@opteron> <2926BCC8-0AF2-483E-BDB1-CF2E30EC4558@shire.net> <001f01c5c980$a3030c50$0c64a8c0@opteron> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:45:06 -0600 To: K Anderson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stored hard drive failure? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:45:27 -0000 On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:44 AM, K Anderson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" > To: "K Anderson" > Cc: > 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 disk would quickly become out of date and stale before any physical 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