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> > Thanks. I am running this on 1 year old hardware on a wholly-encrypted C
> > drive, encrypted with TrueCrypt. I suspect that I would have been alerted
> > already with that or SMART if I had hardware issues?
>
> That sounds excessively optimistic -- not necessarily a good
> characteristic on a database administrator.
>
Which is why I could never be a DBA. :-)
I am the only user. This is for my doctoral research project.
Aren