From: Farley Flud Subject: Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 27 Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!s1-1.netnews.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.usenetexpress.com!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:02:25 +0000 Nntp-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:02:25 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1155 Organization: UsenetExpress - www.usenetexpress.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetexpress.com Bytes: 1411 On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:04:39 -0500, -hh wrote: > > "Anyone who's not a loser...got SSD boot drives years & years ago..." > -hh, 7 Feb 2018. > Nope. Only losers use SSD. HDD is for winners. But, regardless, backups are critical and it is backups which saved me much grief. Yet my original question remains unanswered. What are the usual symptoms, if there are usual symptoms, of a failing HDD drive? What's matter, lackeys? Mamma Ubuntu/Mint has taped your fucking mouths shut? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! -- Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.