[lug] Backup

[Nate Duehr]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> [...]
>> I have been using Hitachi/IBM drives, and they seem to be quite solid.
> 
> I just had one of these fail, after 5 years of part-time use.
> 
>> I *HAVE* found cooling to be a problem in some cases.
> 
> The failed drive is hot now, when I'm recovering data from it.  I take 
> that to be a symptom rather than a cause.  The case has 2 fans so 
> although the drive doesn't get its own fan it shouldn't be any hotter 
> than room temp.
> 
> Wonder if there's a SMART reading for temp?  Cool, there is--hddtemp, at 
> least for drives recent enough to support it (mine is, thanks to the 
> mentioned failure).

Looks like Seagate and Maxtor are merging, semi-related to this thread's 
topic..

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/21/1311235

Always liked Seagate drives better anyway...  ;-)

Nate