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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> So, thoughts? Did it mark that part as bad and all is well or is this |
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>> going to be trouble down the line? Should I just fill the thing up with |
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>> data and test the stuffin out of it to make sure? |
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> That is pretty typical. You wrote to every sector on the drive. You |
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> don't need to be able to read a sector to overwrite it, so doing this |
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> cleared out the drive's list of offline uncorrectable sectors. If |
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> you're fortunate it relocated those sectors in which case the drive is |
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> only using good sectors now. It can't relocate a sector unless it |
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> either gets a successful read, or it is overwritten, and you overwrote |
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> them. |
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> Either way the extended offline test passing isn't unusual. Either it |
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> relocated the sectors in which case the drive is "completely good" or |
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> the data written to the bad sectors was readable when the test was |
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> run, which doesn't guarantee that it will still be readable a |
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> day/week/month/year from now. |
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> Unfortunately I don't think there is any way to find out what the |
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> firmware is doing, or to predict the likelihood of another failure. |
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> The only thing we can say for sure that like all hard drives, it WILL |
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> fail sometime. |
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> Rich |
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What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm |
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thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test |
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every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of |
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testing? I realize no one knows with 100% certainty but I would like to |
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backup my data say every couple weeks just in case. If the drive works, |
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fine. If it fails, well, it wouldn't be the first time and it won't be |
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a primary drive so no big loss. |
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I got to find me a good drive for backups tho. I'm waiting on a good |
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sale of a brand other than Seagate tho. That should help keep two |
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drives from failing at the same time. Well, a little anyway. I think |
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it is called Dale's Law now. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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