On 13 Jul 2004, at 14:59, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I've had plenty of disk failures, but there has always been a warning,
> eg odd noise, bad blocks, etc.
Okay, now imagine that your disk drives are in a datacentre, where
there's a bunch of extremely loud air conditioners, and probably
hundreds or thousands of other pieces of equipment, all making their
own noises. What chance do you have of detecting an "odd noise" from
one disk?
Colm
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