[ale] New hard drive procedure

[Jim Kinney]

Most of my older stuff was sata, then enterprise sata. My sas stuff
survived a near meltdowns off 155°F ambient air for well over an hour.

SAS drives are awesome.
On Jun 6, 2015 8:33 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> On 06/06/2015 07:59 PM, Sam Rakowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've purchased a new hard drive(magnetic) to replace an old one that has
> > some bad sectors on it. I haven't ever bought a new hard drive; most of
> my
> > hard drives come used or part of a new device.
> >
> > I'm just interested in hearing what you all run through when you receive
> a
> > new hard drive. Zero it? Run badblocks? All or none of the above?
> >
>
> I plug it in and use it, but setup backups immediately.  I've had a few
> drives
> die in the first week.
>
> Then a few 1TB+ seagates died just after the warranty ended. Older,
> smaller,
> seagates were good drives - still have a few 320G spinning - almost 8 yrs
> now -
> only used as portable, backup, storage now. Took them out of "production
> use" in
> yr 6.
>
> Of course, there is a huge quality difference between SAS drives and the
> crap
> consumers are sold. I suspect Jim was installing SAS into those arrays.
>
> These days, I buy 2 drives at a time - 1 for primary, the other for
> backups.
> Just makes life easier.
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