Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:41:37 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: Kelly Martin <kellymartin@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hard disk failure - now what? Message-ID: <20090824234137.e20fe096.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90908241432k32797a76o34bdd2c74a6686ce@mail.gmail.com> References: <1338880b0908241129p75b6845cg26d21804e118364@mail.gmail.com> <ade45ae90908241313y495832edkd87004485602a42e@mail.gmail.com> <20090824224003.0b5ac2df.freebsd@edvax.de> <ade45ae90908241351o56e6649cv4dfc50a8fee5aeff@mail.gmail.com> <20090824232614.c3a2ca25.freebsd@edvax.de> <ade45ae90908241432k32797a76o34bdd2c74a6686ce@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:32:05 -0600, Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> wrote: > Not just diagnostics and recovery, it's for preventive maintenance, > and healthy operations too. Most people who use it are in a > diagnostics and recovery, but if you always use it as preventive > maintenance, you'll never need to use it for diagnostics and recovery. > > People complain about it: "I keep running spinrite, but it never finds > problems!" .... exactly, it's doing it's job and not having to > recover. It's doing the work the drive needs to swap out bad sectors > and everything. Well, and its price is not as high as most recovery tools. So prevention is cheaper than intervention here. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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