Jimmy Bradley wrote:
I'm just curious if any one else has noticed this. I've bought
hard drives from both Walmart and Best Buy. If I can wait, I order them
from newegg.com. I'm beginning to think that the staff at both Walmart
and Best Buy, somewhere along the supply line must dribble the drives
like basket balls. The reason I say that is all the drives I have bought
from those two places fail within a few months time. Has anyone else
noticed that? Just curious
You might want to consider them as possibly recycled drives. If you
don't have a copy of SpinRite you can force the drive to check all the
sectors with fdisk ...
fdisk -f -y -c -c
or if you are formatting,
mkfs.ext3 -c -c
will also do this check.
This will byte-swap check and should force updates of SMART statistics
and bad-sector detection on the drive.
Jed
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