hard drive woes

[zscoundrel]

I noticed that the 10 gb WD HD in my Linux desktop system has just 
started throwing CRC errors.

It is also getting very full (>1gig left) so I guess it is time to 
replace it with a bigger one and use this one for /swap and /var.

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Kurt, if the BIOS isn't detecting it reliably, and the drive is showing the
> kind of errors you report, I have to agree that banging it really hard on
> the connector end is likely to do as much good as anything else.  When I
> worked in a hardware shop, it seems like drives became more and more
> unrecoverable as technology advanced.  I took that to mean that they were
> reliable enough that they only failed if they were really, really dead.
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> The recovery utilities will help sometimes if there's been some sort of
> system-level software error that has scrambled the low-level format, but
> usually when something goes that wrong, it's more than just an error,
> something's permanently broken.
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> At 30GB, the drive's probably old enough to be pusing into the age where
> it's likely to fail anyway.  Even if you recover it, I don't think I'd trust
> it with 30GB of work.
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