On 21 Oct at 05:21, George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Modern HDD'sautomatically remap bad sectors. ... > > My experience is that a few drives have a small number of bad blocks > remapped but continue to work. Most just keep > generating more bad blocks and soon stop working, so you want to copy of > the data ASAP. I'd probably change that from "most" to "all" without much concern. And also "small number" to just "a number of tracks"--given the size of drives today, the badblock reserve isn't all that small. Which means bad block checks on a newish drive should never report anything. In fact, if they ever do, it means all the reserved blocks are exhausted. This can, and usually does, mean they're failing at a significant, and likely accelerating, rate. Essentially, once you *start* detecting bad blocks, it's time to replace that drive, and sooner rather than later. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
