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====== Hard Drives Health Checks ====== | ====== Hard Drives Health Checks ====== | ||
- | When one builds a NAS, specifically on a tight budget, it might well happen that used hard drives are used to fill the hard disk bay... | + | When one builds a NAS, specifically on a tight budget, it might well happen that "second hand" hard drives are used to fill the hard disk bay... |
One important thing to do before trusting those drives to safely store your precious data is to check their health. Here are a few command tools that can be used to performs such checks. | One important thing to do before trusting those drives to safely store your precious data is to check their health. Here are a few command tools that can be used to performs such checks. | ||
- | The following was collected from [[http://linuxpoison.blogspot.be/2008/01/howto-check-disk-drive-for-errors-and.html|this blogspot article]], as well as from [[http://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/how-to-fix-repair-bad-blocks-in-linux/|this LinOxyde one]]. | + | The following was collected from [[http://linuxpoison.blogspot.be/2008/01/howto-check-disk-drive-for-errors-and.html|this blogspot article]], as well as from [[http://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/how-to-fix-repair-bad-blocks-in-linux/|this one on LinOxyde]]. |
===== badblocks ===== | ===== badblocks ===== |