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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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... |
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As you already said, nobody knows with 100% certainty. |
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In the failures I've experienced I'd expect it to start catching |
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errors within a few days. However, on those drives the relocated |
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sector count never increases, which suggests that the firmware never |
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relocated those sectors when overwritten, which seems brain-dead to |
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me. |
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If the drive relocates the sectors, then conceivably it could go quite |
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a long time until having errors, probably in an entirely different set |
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of sectors. |
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Even if it doesn't relocate, the reliability of the bad sectors could |
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be high or low. |
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Rich |
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