Linux Box Killing Drives?
I've got a $199 Walmart box that I installed Debian on. This machine seems to have a habit of eventually munching filesystems. They become non-readable and fsck throws out thousands of errors. This has happened to three or four drives so far over a couple years. Normally drives are very reliable so this seems very strange. I tried installing a drive controller card, thinking something was flaky with the controller on the motherboard but that didn't help.
Has anyone every heard of such a thing? Perhaps it's heat build up? Something else?
I'm repartitioning one of those drives on another machine and creating a filesystem to see if it gets better or still has problems. I don't feel like spending lots of $$$ on this as I just use it to server a few things but if I need to replace it with another cheap box I will do so. I can also replace the main board - it's only a 1.1 ghz chip anyway.
Thanks,
Eric
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