Defragmentation needed with FreeBSD ...

Alistar Erlas millueradfa at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 3 07:08:15 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
> > I would say that if the HDD starts making new
noises
that it didnt make previously, then definitely there
may be something wrong. Some hard disks do make noises
when reading data, others do not. I have had some that
are easily heard, and they always were that way, and
others that are silent.

As far as backing up data, CDs are an option but with
a lot of data that gets a bit inconvenient, maybe one
of the GUI CD writer tools on FreeBSD makes spanning
multiple CDs less of a performance. Maybe there is
some tool to verify the CDs where written properly as
well. I hope. I have another computer that I just copy
the data to. Some people just install two hard drives
inside their system and use the second as a backup.
Some people use external USB hard drives.



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