Defragmentation needed with FreeBSD ...

Alistar Erlas millueradfa at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 3 07:03:30 PDT 2005



--- Andreas Davour <ante at Update.UU.SE> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote:
> 
> > On 10/2/05, Andreas Davour <ante at update.uu.se>
> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> >>
> >>> ***** REPLY SEPARATOR *****
> >>> On 10/2/2005 9:40:11 AM, Gerard Seibert Replied:
> >>>
> >>> I have both Windows and FreeBSD boxes, and I can
> honestly say that I do
> >>> not hear the hdd scratching (I certainly hope it
> is not scratching). It
> >>> sounds to me like you have a serious problem
> with your HD. Perhaps it is
> >>> time to trade it in for a newer model.
> >>
> >> Yes, a HD should not be heard, then it's time to
> be very afraid! It
> >> happened to me yesterday, so I know... :(
> >
> > You know, it depends. Most of my Seagate drives
> > are almost silent, but Maxtor and Hitachi (IBM)
> can
> > easily be heard.
> 
> They can? I have always taken sound as a sign of
> troubles. Anyway, any 
> "should" above "should" be taken with a grain of
> salt. :)
> 
> SMART have some merit.
> 
> /andreas
> 
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