(Sorry for resurrecting an old thread...) On 2/20/08, Joshua Radke <josh at radkeland.org> wrote: > The punch line > is that I've retired the drive for live use, and will be using it for > backups instead. I've been bitten HARD by this in the past and strongly urge you not to do this. When you need your backup, you'll really need it. Do you want to find out at that point that it was a bad drive and you didn't _really_ have a backup? My $0.02 thomas