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Old 10-23-2018, 02:34 AM  
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
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.
True, often when it start to show signs data loss already start to occur.
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