[Techtalk] finding bad files

[John Sturdy]

With the caveat that sometimes the network (phone company) connection
can be more exposed to lightning than the power one, and if you've got
an electrical storm approaching, it could make sense to unplug that
too; I've seen a modem card (in the days of dialup) blown by a strike
further down the street.

Even with solar power and batteries you could be affected by
lightning; my concern is that solar panels tend to be mounted quite
high up, and may make good lightning targets.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:06 PM,  <rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 14 April 2015 09:23:44 CEST, Wim De Smet <kromagg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:22 AM Miriam English
>><mim at miriam-english.org>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> The drive may be failing, though it isn't terribly old and being an
>>> external drive I only connect and switch it on when I actually need
>>to
>>> read or write data from/to it. The data may have become affected
>>during
>>> one of the very frequent blackouts we have here. Or I wonder if dust
>>on
>>> the USB connectors could have damaged the data, though I think that
>>they
>>> use checksums to guard against that. Looks like I'll have to save the
>>> money to buy another 2 terabyte (or larger) drive. (I wish solid
>>state
>>> drives would get cheaper more quickly.)
>>>
>>
>>Sometimes a younger drive fails prematurely. The rated lifetime is kind
>>of
>>statistical, most drives last far longer, some die sooner. Though it
>>sounds
>>like it's just normal file system corruption from power failure.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I used to have an uninterruptible power supply, but it got destroyed
>>a
>>> while back when lightning struck while I was shutting everything down
>>> because I heard a storm approaching. Since then I've become a big fan
>>of
>>> ultra-low-power computing and want to move entirely to solar panels
>>and
>>> batteries in the near future. I'm sick of having thousands of dollars
>>in
>>> computers and other equipment destroyed by the electrical grid over
>>the
>>> years.
>>>
>>>
>>In the meantime, surge protector power strips may be a good investment?
>>They're comparatively cheap and I've heard good things. It might help
>>to
>>avoid damage to components when the grid has issues.
>
> Surge protectors are worth their money. Better replace a surge protector or even a ups then the equipment they protect.
>
>
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