On 2020-09-04 11:34, Andreas Messer wrote:
Hi golinux,
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
On 2020-09-01 00:07, [email protected] wrote:
[...]
I have no idea how reliable the repaired drive is after this radical
surgery. Can it be written to or files deleted? Should I even try?
[...]
I wouldn't use a drive anymore which has started reallocating
sectors, well which has reallocated sectors all.
During manufacturing the drive, it can happen that some sectors are
bad,
but these sectors are already "reallocated" during the manufacturing
end
test and will not show up in the SMART information. When a magnetic
disc
drive starts reallocating sectors, it is an indicator that something
within drive starts to be become bad/broken. (Or even has been from the
beginning of its live) There is a high chance, that one will observe
more
and more reallocations. And this is a guarantee for data loss.
Just for the record: The magnetic drives in my 24/7 NAS are
starting/stopping about 5 to 10 times a day (standby), according to
SMART
these drives now have roughly 15k start/stops and about 7k power
on hours: They don't have a single reallocated sector.
If you can afford it, I would suggest you to replace it.
cheers,
Andreas
Andreas . . . it's always good to get feedback from those with more
experience than I.
I don't have much confidence in hardware coming right OOTB. Of the items
I've purchased over the years, quite a few have been DOA or failed
shortly thereafter for whatever reason.
This particular drive has no data that is not backed up elsewhere so I
am comfortable experimenting with it a bit as a learning experience.
OTOH, trashing the remaining life it has for no reason wouldn't make
sense.
I have some older spares that I can reuse and 2 new 500 GB WD Black
drives waiting to be formatted.
BTW . . .thanks for fixing apt in chimaera. :D
golinux
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