Log your dead hard disk drives here

Hi,

In an earlier message

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0304.2/0765.html

It was suggested that someone should set up a web page to track all these dead hard drives that seem so common today.

Well, goto the link below and you can log your dead drive and view all the other submissions. Yep it's all pretty basic just now and the data is just stored in a CSV text file.

Anyways if you think this is useful head along to

http://digital-domain.net/fscked-disk/

it doesn't really need much explaining ;).

Cheers,

Andrew Clayton

What does your site do that the StorageReview.com Reliability Survey doesn't? (i.e., the SR.com survey has been around for a while, why do we need another?)

-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>

Perhaps we don't, I wasn't aware of the above site. Looking at it though, mine is obviously much more to the point and is targeting one specific area, in that it is just logging drive failures.

I'll let the people decide if they find it useful and want to use it or not.....

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Andrew Clayton

I'm not convinced that you are collecting enough information to get useful statistics, in particular, you lack any data about drives that haven't failed yet.

Suppose that there are two vendors sell drives with identical characteristics, one of which sells twice as many drives as the other. In your statistics, you will give the appearance that the more popular drive performs less well because you see twice as many failures.

A better approach would be for people to register their drives with you when they are new, and then to inform you when the drive fails or is otherwise disposed of. The problem here would be to keep track of the drives to ensure that failures really do get logged.

Peter