Dotan Cohen wrote: > Adrian Levi wrote: > > You might be interested to read the applicable Debian bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448673 > > Thanks, Adrian, it seems that I'm right there! I'll start looking > for > a new hard drive now, before the data loss. (I do keep regular > backups). In contrast to the doomsayers I am not convinced that this single item is a great predictor of hard drive failure. It is just one metric of data in a larger set. Being used in a mobile environment is already a harder environment for laptops. Therefore you should always have reasonable backup and recovery plans anyway. I was in the same situation with a high load count accumulated but didn't replace my drive. However another failure (motherboard) about a year later claimed my laptop and I ended up needing to replace the entire box with a different one. Bob
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