Well, there's SMARTD. I haven't used it. I'm thinking about starting though. It used to be that IDE hard drive failures were a rarity. In the last couple of months or so, I've seen 3 drives die. One was a couple months old. (hitachi deskstar 61GB) The other two were 2 years old. Interestingly, they were both Western Digital 20GB drives in a hardware raid1 configuration. They failed within a couple of weeks of each other. They both show to be dead even when put into a totally different machine, and new drives in the original machine fixed the problems, so I don't think its a controller issue. In my own personal machines, I have always used Maxtors and never had a single failure, though. Anyone having similar experiences? On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 08:34 -0700, Michael Marsh wrote: > Help! > > I run fedora as a samba server and have just recovered from my second > hard disk crash in only 8 months. Is there a way that i can monitor > and fix hard disk health between disasters? >
