[MLUG] A recovery story

[patricia campbell]

what tests did you run svp ?

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:34 PM,  <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:40:54PM -0400, Steeve McCauley wrote:
>>
>> I have terrible experience with all of the USB hard drives I
>> have tried.  I may look into eSATA next time, but there's no
>> question that a 500GB disk is cheap these days.
>
>
> Last time I bought 500 GB USB drives, I bought two.  I spent the next
> two days testing the first one, then another two days testing the
> second.  The second was good, the first not.  I returned it to the
> store, and they gave me a replacement.  I tested it, too.
>
> It takes days to test one of those drives.  It was well worth it.  The
> ones that passed the tests have never failed.
>
> And I did not do the quick nondestructive read test.  I did the full
> read/write test.
>
> I'll never use another hard drive without fully testing it again.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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