[ale] external hard drive

[scott]

from someone that does storage (think disk drives) for a living..
1) disks fail.  not if, but when.
2) if you can hear disks making sounds, it is time to replace them.
  a) if the disk is relatively new, have the manufacture replace the
drive.  they have built that cost into the purchase price.
3) backup all important data.

at some point aaron will have me do my preso on storage.. I just have
to finish writing it up...

scott

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Robert Coggins wrote:
>> Speaking of drives, I just bought a 500 gig portable drive that I will
>> be mostly using with linux and mac.  Sometimes I might connect it to a
>> windows box.  What is the best file system to use so that the drive
>> works between all three?  Right now it is vfat but I am limited to 4 gig
>> files.  I would like to keep some virtuals on it...
>>
>>
>> Geoffrey, when I bought my new drive I had similar issues.  It was green
>> drive but I went ahead and returned it for the same drive.  I no longer
>> hear the noises.  But my noises might have been different; when I picked
>> up the drive the sound would change depending on how I tilted it.  It
>> still worked, but I returned it to get my comfort level up.
>
> Yeah, I think I'm going to do the same.
>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On 01/27/2010 09:13 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>>> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>>> Is it a green drive?
>>>>
>>>> Ie. To save power, by design it powers off after a few milliseconds of non-use?
>>>>
>>>> I have seen lots of discussion of the problems they have under linux,
>>>> but I don't recall the details.
>>>>
>>>> Fyi: if you don't address the issue, the drive will die early if it is
>>>> green drive.
>>> Doesn't say anything about being a green drive that I can see on the
>>> box.  Seagate FreeAgent Desk.  My daughter has the exact same drive
>>> connected to her mac, never has such issues.
>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>>
>>>> On 1/27/10, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>>>> So, I picked up a 1.5 tb external drive.  I pushed a bunch of data off
>>>>> to it all went well.  Later, I connect the drive up to a couple of
>>>>> different boxes.  Each time, the drive is giving that really scary
>>>>> clicking sound you dread.  I can access the data fine, I don't see any
>>>>> errors being produced.  This thing is brand new, what is with this?  Any
>>>>> reason anyone can come up with why this drive would be making these noises?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>>>>
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>>>>> the pretense of taking care of them."
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