[ale] New hard drive procedure

[dev null zero two]

are you my doppelganger? :-P

as long as the drive doesn't die in a couple months or have major firmware
issues, just plan on replacing it in 3 years. SMART doesn't indicate a
whole lot tbh. it's nice to have but it's not necessary.

Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
On Jun 6, 2015 8:39 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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