Stored hard drive failure?
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Wed Oct 5 07:45:27 PDT 2005
On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:44 AM, K Anderson wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad at shire.net>
> To: "K Anderson" <freebsduser at comcast.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Stored hard drive failure?
>
>
>
>>
>> On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:13 AM, K Anderson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> How long can the hard drive sit on the shelf before some sort of
>>> natural
>>> cause that prevents it from spinning up properly?
>>>
>>
>> How long are you storing them for? I would think that the data
>> on the
>> disk would quickly become out of date and stale before any physical
>> issues would arise.
>>
> Thanks for your response,
>
> Not sure how long I'm storing them (See above question where I
> asked -- How
> long can the HD sit on the shelf... and the other questions seemed
> to be
> editted out). But you're right the info could become out-of-date
> unless when
> I did patch management then I would pull the stored HD off the
> shelf and
> hope that it didn't fail because of non-use and re-mirror the main
> drive
> then stored the secondary back on the shelf. But then that really
> doens't
> hit the other two questions that were editted out.
>
> Perhaps if somebody had experience with doing the very scenario I
> thought
> of. I know HDs can be touchy but how touchy can they get if they
> are just
> sitting on the shelf waiting for resuse and me going, darn that HD
> is bad
> now that it sat on the shelf for X number of [days|weeks|months|
> years].
I somewhat regularly retrieve used HDs off the shelf for use in some
test or project or another and never have had a problem with a
relatively modern HD (like built in the last 5 years) not working,
even after sitting on a shelf for 1-2 years.
Is your data going to be good after 1-2 years?
If you are talking weeks or months sitting there that should not be
an issue with modern HD mechanisms
Chad
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