SCSI HD at HSC

[Cal Herrmann]

>On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 03:37:25PM -0100, Cal Herrmann wrote:
> > In case anyone is interested, I asked HSC Computers in Rohnert Park
> > if they had any SCSI hard discs (they have many bargains, but mostly
> > PC); they have a double-height 2g for $30. They thought it was a
> > Seagate, but it identifies itself as a HP-C3010, seems very sturdy.
>....
>	One comment about buying used HDs -- often computer stuff either
>works or doesn't out of the box, and if it does work it'll stay working for
>a considerable period.  HDs don't seem to work that way -- they have a
>substantially higher failure rate (moving parts) than most components, and
>their failures can take a while to crop up.
>
>	One way to attempt to find out is to put the drive in its expected
>thermal environment, then run sequential large-file bonnie iterations on it
>for a day or two.  Bonnie is a small free disk benchmark utility, which has
>the useful side effect of being pretty hard on the drive -- end-to-end runs
>on 1GB test files (the largest you can manage with an unpatched 32-bit x86
>machine) can help show flaws before you commit any meaningful data to the
>disk.
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Thanks, good idea. I don't think it is used, label indicates it was 
made for a German company, I think it is a leftover. Does run warm. 
-ch