Il giorno dom 11 set 2022 alle ore 20:08 Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > That's called paranoia - ALL drives have hiccups when there's absolutely > nothing wrong with them. What are the manufacturer's error figures? > Expect at least one error every two or three complete passes of pretty > much every large big disk nowadays? > > What's the point of having thousands of spare sectors, if you chuck the > drive in the trash at the first hint of trouble? even here we use to replace disk as soon as we get a read error. The spare sectors are useful to give some time before the new disk arrives.