Re: [CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

On 2/19/2010 8:48 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been running fine for months.

Well, do you think that computer hardware lives forever?

They don't? /me stares at 486dx with a working floppy drive and working floppies from the eighties and early nineties.

And I deal with hardware with drives, and memory, and the occasional m/b failing at less than five years old. Depends on the manufacturer, the q/c they had at the time it was manufactured, and the day of the week, as the old line from car buyers goes.

I think of mine about the same way as light bulbs. They'll work for years on the average but it's pretty much random when any individual one will go.