[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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