[plug] Using a HDD with Badsectors

[Shannon Carver]

I've found when on the search for fans eBay or any of the Electronics type
places are a LOT better than any of the computer stores, apart from maybe
dedicated CPU fan installs.  I got a box of 20x 12/240V 120mm Fans a while
ago from eBay for $5.  As is often the case for cheap items, postage was
more expensive than the cost of the item.

But I've used them all over the place, and they've proved to be very handy.

Back sort of on-topic, replacing the drives is the best way to solve the
problem, as others have mentioned.  I've just replaced a 4x60GB RAID-0 IDE
Array recently.  Oddly enough, all four drives (Western Digital WD60
Caviars), had a warranty of 3 years, and they've survived without an issue
since 2001.  To add to that they've been in my stinking hot
non-airconditioned study with no proper cooling the whole time.

Of course, nowadays, the ridiculously cheap cost of upgrade with the
increased size/speed makes keeping such an array a stupid idea.  But just
wanted to add that IDE drives don't *ALWAYS* fail before/near their warranty
expiry even when run in far less than perfect conditions.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Timothy White
> Sent: Monday, 27 November 2006 1:48 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au; caston at arach.net.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Using a HDD with Badsectors
> 
> On 11/27/06, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Use it as secondary drive for apt-cache or a scratch drive for trying
> > out various distros.
> >
> > Don't use it for anything important that can't be replaced easily.
> 
> I was thinking along those lines anyway. Except I couldn't think what
> I could use it for, other than /tmp or for dumping my sisters files
> (or not).
> 
> I was totally forgetting I have >20Gb of Debian and Ubuntu Mirrors,
> and just the other day had to shuffle some data around because I
> needed to increase an Ubuntu mirror, and mirror LVM wasn't big
> enough!!
> 
> Thanks for reminding me I have mirrors that I can put on it! :D
> 
> Anyway, gone and gotten another 80Gb HDD, IDE as it's cheaper than
> SATA at this end of the size spectrum, and I'll start mirroring the
> drive over once I check the new cooler fans are doing their job!!
> 
> My pet hate with Perth Computer stores, is an apparent lack of cheap,
> "not fancy" cooling fans. My pet hate with my computer case atm, is
> the fact it only takes a 80mm fan at the front, although the jigsaw
> will be changing that. When I work out best way to construct rack
> mount cases, I'll be building my rack mount's, with 120mm fans (x2)
> cooling 2 drives each, with plenty of ventilation! (Design is all
> finished, construction is the issue).
> 
> Anyway, hopefully my server case will be better off with new drives
> and fans! And I just got myself 80Gb of Mirror space! :D
> 
> Tim
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