You should absolutely be doing a full block read of your disk, dd if=/dev/disk of=/dev/null every couple weeks

pretty accurate username

	▲	nrhrjrjrjtntbt a day ago \| parent [-]
		Amusing profile too. For some reason he calls us here on HN a "congress".

markhahn a day ago | parent | prev [-]

pointless to do it by the default 512b block size though.