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Re: [LUG] hdd recomendations



On 17-Jun-2002 at 19:55:36 Kai Hendry wrote:
All hard drives die, and I dislike when I see people cast blame on a
particular manufacturer. I say, buy a HD with best specs for the best
price. :)

There are some "early warning" features on some HDs with SMART ability I
think is one.  I was wondering, has anyone got any use of these
features under Linux (or windows for that matter)?

Not yet, but I see that redhat 7.3 has a SMART daemon starting at boot. I
haven't looked into it yet, but I have enabled SMART on the drives.

I use Seagate drives btw; had no problems with them at all :-)


Regards,

John.

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