> if you read 1TB, you have 8% chance of a silent bad read > sector. More important to worry about that in today's world > than optimizing disk space use.
do you have a citation for this? i know if you work out the numbers from the BER, this is about what you get, but in practice i do not see this 8%. we do pattern writes all the time, and i can't recall the last time i saw a "silent" read error. - erik
