[BBLISA] windows disk diagnostics

[Eric Smith]

I fully agree with that Maxtor warning and was very careful not to get
a repackaged drive.
I've never owned one of their drives and never plan too.

I guess it's asking to much to actually have my OS warn me when I'm
having some unusual rate of bad sectors... but that is what snmp +
SMART is for, eh?  Sure, don't have it as the default (we wouldn't
want to scare Joe-six pack with a warning he won't understand, I
guess) but I'd like the option.

Finally got smartmontools and it looks like it can be installed as a
service.  Nice... gotta read more about this tomorrow.

Every so often think I should switch my desktop to Linux... but that
just has its own headaches.

Thanks for all the suggestions and info.

Eric

On Feb 3, 2008 12:45 AM, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Eric Smith wrote:
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> Also, don't forget that Seagate _somewhat_ recently purchased Maxtor, and
> most of us know Maxtor has a horrible reputation for quality.  Thus, for
> consumer-grade hard drives, you _might_ have a rebadged Maxtor drive that
> now says Seagate.  Good luck!
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> Scott
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