[PLUG] Reliable storage on a shoestring

Evan Heidtmann clydefrog at adnap.no-ip.com
Tue Aug 9 01:34:30 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 15:15 -0700, Russell, Allen wrote:
> Recently I thought I had a case of "silent data corruption" on a disk
> drive.  However, what it really turned out to be was a case of
> intermittently failing memory.  The apparent result is the same but
> the cause and treatment are quite different.
> 
> http://www.memtest.org/  should be your friend.

Good tip. I should run that more often ... :-)

-Evan





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