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I don't really care why hard drives die either, but I like that, more often than not, I get some warning. SMART logs, or weird kernel complaints, in my experien

I don't really care why hard drives die either, but I like that, more often than not, I get some warning. SMART logs, or weird kernel complaints, in my experience, are frequent precursors. I'm a little scared about my new SSDs that have replaced a few rust-spinners in our data center.

soneil 8y ago
That's the big difference for me. Drive's making tictictick sounds? Kernel log full of bigScaryErrorsLikeThis? It's time to ditch that disk before the disk ditches you. Make it happen. Panic-Backup if you need to. etc. Every SSD failure I've had, the failure mode was "what SSD?" Now, I realise most people should ponder their backup regime before the tictictick, not after. But as the phrase goes "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best is now." The SSD equivalent is "The be- nope, too late." They're just terribly unforgiving, which doesn't fit with a culture that values cure over prevention.