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I have a disk crash problem and actually, I want to ask something.
If we often having 100% disk usage, could it cause disk failure somewhere in the near future?
If it can, can somebody explain it to me? or maybe pointing out some document in the website or maybe a text book?
Well, I have this experience, on saturday, we have 100% disk usage and suddenly on sunday, we have disk crash in the same disk that experience 100% disk usage. Is this just a coincidence?
Thank you for your time and I'd appreciate your response.
Well, if your drive is having to work really hard I can see why it might crash. It's not a good situation because the head has to jump all over the disks. If your drive is full then it can't write cashe and that might be your problem. Why don't you get a bigger drive?
Well, it is a NAS disk and it is already 1.4 TByte. Actually, the disk problem that I had was disk error. Hence, we need to replace it with new disk. After, it is being replaced, the NAS server is fine.
My question is, is there any correlation between having too many 100% disk usage with disk hardware failure?
The reason I asked this because I need solid proof that too many 100% disk usage can cause disk hardware failure. Otherwise, users won't believe in me.
Thank you for your time and I'd appreciate your response.
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