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Should we pre-emptively retire old hard drives?

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superboyac:
Amahi server looks really great.  I'm especially attracted to their drive pooling which is advertised front and center.  Ok, testing this one soon...

4wd:
There's also NexentaStor Community Edition, (good for up to 18TB).

NexentaStor was made with a hassled storage admin in mind. Actions are laid out in a simple to understand manner. You'll be at home in no time.
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The current Community Release is version 3.1.3.


*     Free for up to 18 TB of raw storage capacity
*     Support for user and group quotas
*     The ability to automatically expand pools
*     Copy on write
*     Checksummed datablocks and metadata for reliability.
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ewemoa:
I hope CrystalDiskInfo wasn't made by some hardware manufacturer trying to trick me into purchasing a new computer...
-Curt (August 04, 2012, 12:41 PM)
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I don't think so -- the following gives me the impression the author is an independent developer.  According to:

  http://crystalmark.info/information/index-e.html

and

  http://crystalmark.info/information/digitalsign-e.html

the developer appears to be hiyohiyo of Hokkaido, Japan.

Curt:
(...) Here's a screenshot of one of my favorite tools (CrystalDiskInfo), showing smart data of my oldest drive, (...)-mouser (August 02, 2012, 01:52 AM)
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CAN A FAN BREAK DOWN WITHOUT THE USER BEING NOTIFIED?
 :tellme:

What is this "Current pending sector count"? Something dangerous?
 :tellme:

mouser:
60C is too high for a drive, i would make sure you have good backups of what's on that drive.

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