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rowan · 10-22-2018, 12:01 PM

There will often be no signs. If uptime is important, you need to do both of these:

1. Redundancy (eg RAID) : to allow your server to continue operating when a drive fails.

2. Backup: to allow recovery if the RAID array fails, or someone maliciously deletes your Apache install.

There is little point trying to predict the failure of a drive.

10-22-2018, 12:01 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	There will often be no signs. If uptime is important, you need to do both of these: 1. Redundancy (eg RAID) : to allow your server to continue operating when a drive fails. 2. Backup: to allow recovery if the RAID array fails, or someone maliciously deletes your Apache install. There is little point trying to predict the failure of a drive.