[ale] Hard Drive Failures

[Jim Kinney]

+1e1M
Don't worry about drive failure. Just be competent at restores from solid
backups. Bit rot on tape is unmeasurably small compared to drive failure
rates. If it matters, back it up. If you're not backing it up, it doesn't
matter.
On Feb 21, 2013 5:05 PM, "David Tomaschik" <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:

> So, I was going to let myself be sucked into Ron and dev null's debate on
> the other thread, but decided better of it.  While I am no Steve Gibson fan
> (in fact, I believe his products and advice are only slightly better than
> snake oil) I'm going to steer clear of that and head for the central topic:
> there are a *lot* of threads on this mailing list about drives failing; and
> no, I'm not suggesting there's an epidemic of drive deaths, just that
> people are approaching it the wrong way.
>
> If you care (aside from replacement time and cost) about a single hard
> drive (rotational or SSD) failing: you are doing it wrong.  Plain and
> simple.
>
> Backups are the solution to hard drive failures, not ddrescue, spinrite,
> or snake oil.  Pick any one hard drive in my place and destroy it.  Other
> than buying and installing a new hard drive, I won't lose much sleep over
> that.  I might lose a little bit of data, but not enough that I'll be
> struggling with ddrescue over it.
>
> JD and I once did a presentation at ALE-NW about backup solutions.  There
> are many out there: commercial and open source, local and remote, network
> or disk-to-disk, etc.  Pick one (or be like me and pick several) and use
> them.  Then enjoy the zen of treating hard drives as the commodities they
> are, as opposed to the heart of your electronic world.
>
> (FYI, this all comes from a couple of painful experiences before I
> was enlightened to the path of the backup.)
>
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