Slackware on old hard drives
by thirdm from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5659H)
Similar to the "Slackware on old computers" thread, among those who like to keep old machines running are there those who take it further to keeping old disks running?
Til recently I would never buy a used harddrive except in a used machine and would justify buying a new one with the excuse that my old one was a few years old and might fail soon. Then I used to chase after these high pitched whines, but these days my fridge and all the nearby unit's air conditioners drown that out not to mention my hearing not being what it was.
But lately I've decided to keep my harddrives til they die too and may buy used replacements. It's now useful for me at work to know what hard drive failure looks like (and whenever I get to SSDs seeing them fail would be even more useful). And in theory I should never be caught off guard vis a vis backups anyway, so I should learn to manage risk from drives with high failure probability. (I only have laptops, not going to use RAID.)
Would anyone care to defend the position that Slackware makes their hard drives last longer?
Haven't had this idea for so long, so my drive isn't super old. Some smartctl -a fields from the Slackware laptop harddrive. My OpenBSD one may be older, but who cares.
Code:Device Model: TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF
User Capacity: 750,156,374,016 bytes [750 GB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 042 042 000 Old_age Always - 23541
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7840
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 42 (Min/Max 12/48)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 055 055 000 Old_age Always - 18296
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 23541 -
# 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 22491 -Hmmm, if people with RAID respond with such stats, maybe you want to pick the oldest of your drives rather than listing them all.
Til recently I would never buy a used harddrive except in a used machine and would justify buying a new one with the excuse that my old one was a few years old and might fail soon. Then I used to chase after these high pitched whines, but these days my fridge and all the nearby unit's air conditioners drown that out not to mention my hearing not being what it was.
But lately I've decided to keep my harddrives til they die too and may buy used replacements. It's now useful for me at work to know what hard drive failure looks like (and whenever I get to SSDs seeing them fail would be even more useful). And in theory I should never be caught off guard vis a vis backups anyway, so I should learn to manage risk from drives with high failure probability. (I only have laptops, not going to use RAID.)
Would anyone care to defend the position that Slackware makes their hard drives last longer?
Haven't had this idea for so long, so my drive isn't super old. Some smartctl -a fields from the Slackware laptop harddrive. My OpenBSD one may be older, but who cares.
Code:Device Model: TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF
User Capacity: 750,156,374,016 bytes [750 GB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 042 042 000 Old_age Always - 23541
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7840
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 42 (Min/Max 12/48)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 055 055 000 Old_age Always - 18296
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 23541 -
# 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 22491 -Hmmm, if people with RAID respond with such stats, maybe you want to pick the oldest of your drives rather than listing them all.