Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

[Eliezer Croitoru]

Hey Richard,

Just keep in mind that depends on your usage the disk might get bad sectors.
As much as many including me would like to not have them happen they do 
happen for any HDD vendor!
Some things that affect DISK lifespan:
- enterprise\server level usage on a desktop disk
- high times of over heating(can be a result of the above)
- very high number of random direct read+write operations exhausting the 
mechanical parts of the disk.
- electricity stability issues which can cause magnetic interference in 
disk operations.
- many others.

I have not operated Data Centers but I do know some operators that 
report the same issues on very high end spinning disks from storage 
vendors with fault rate of 1/100 disks per month and sometimes even 
higher( 3-4/100).

And I must admit that I do not want to stain Seagate name and I must add 
that couple years ago when 250GB was lots of space I bought a WD 250GB 
HDD that faulted after only about 24 hours of operation.
What would you do after such a thing??

Eliezer

On 16/02/2016 05:00, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:02 PM, SternData
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com <mailto:subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     I just got one of these to replace one that was dropping sectors:
>     http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T3GRN2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00
>
>
> Yeah, I shopped around a bit and decided to give a referb with 1 year
> warranty a shot. It's a WD enterprise drive.
>
> The one that's dying is a Seagate which I shouldn't have bought after
> the last Seagate I bought had to be RMA'd 3 times over the 5 year
> warranty. I know statistically it doesn't matter (some are made by the
> same OEM) but it's just left a really bad taste in my mouth.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>