I had a hard drive die on machine 6814791. So they will slowly time out. Sorry about that.

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Old James

No worries nothing you could have done ..drives die out of the blue and for no reason

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

Hardware dies for sure. That hard drive was only 3 years old though. Was a Seagate barracuda. Its ths same one in its twin. Now Im wondering if that will fail.

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Old James

yeah stay away from seagate there s a reason they have the nickname sh**gate

I have a bunch of WD black and enterprise drives from WD they been running for 5 years or so 24/7 no bad sectors no reallocated either

HGST is a lil cheaper ....they the budget brand of WD i have a couple of those that came with some servers and so far no issues either

most of my seagates never made it past 6 month most of em developed bad sectors within days

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

As I was about to put my backup rig to sleep at the end of this month the drive that I have my SETI@home folders on in my main rig is deciding to go AWOL so it's the 1 offline now. :-(

Hopefully I'll get the time to replace it on the weekend, but then again things may pop up here that'll make that job take longer (C.W.#1 being the main thing). ;-)

Cheers.

As I was about to put my backup rig to sleep at the end of this month the drive that I have my SETI@home folders on in my main rig is deciding to go AWOL so it's the 1 offline now. :-(

Hopefully I'll get the time to replace it on the weekend, but then again things may pop up here that'll make that job take longer (C.W.#1 being the main thing). ;-)

Cheers.

If no problems pop up it'll be Sunday or Monday before I can get a replacement drive in and try to backup/repair the data off the failing drive (hopefully, but at least I can still see the files on it).

Cheers.