Disk error??

[Don Quixote de la Mancha]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> That depends on whether you time or money are more valuable. Certainly
> for a business the above is a reasonable strategy. For a hobbiest, continuing
> to use a drive after it has a few reallocated sectors may be a very reasonable
> course of action.

If the only problem was that some sectors got remapped, it shouldn't
be failing any of the tests.  At worst, it would simply report that
the remapping had taken place, but that the test had passed.

And in fact, back in the day I made a practice of backing up then
destructively bad-sector testing all of my drives once a year or so,
because the drives of the time just weren't anywhere near as reliable
as today's drives.  Doing so enabled some of my drives to last ten
years.

What would be a problem though is unrecoverable errors.

Don Quixote
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