[kwlug-disc] The sweet(?) smell of power supplies

[Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account)]

On Apr 7, 2014, at 3:23 PM, chaslinux at gmail.com wrote:
> The one thing I've wondered is if using NFS might have contributed to the hard drive's smart errors (after about 1 year of use)... I doubt it, but since I haven't done any NFS since... The drive was a 1TB Seagate. Current 2TB has been great for several years (bought it when hd prices were crazy low - $69).

Why would disk access through NFS stress a drive any more than local disk access, or access through something like Samba or another networking standard?

-A.