Disk Death

[Leon Goldstein]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:

>That sucks.  smartd never alerted you to any problems?
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I have had similar sudden death events both with fairly new WD and 
Seagate PATA drives.

In the bad old days gouged media from head crashes and epileptic stepper 
motors took their early toll.
In the good old days it was usually a bad bearing, but its whine would 
give early warning.

These days, it seems the sudden failures are with the interface 
electronics rather than the mechanicals.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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