On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Nicholas Fantuzzi wrote:
2010/2/13 Chance Reecher <[email protected]>
Use the drive for backups. I have several drives that have had one
issue or another, so since I don't really trust them with anything
valuable they serve as backup drives.
Backups?!
I suggest you to sell it on eBay..and to buy a new one if you want a
new drive for your PowerMac G5.
Nicholas
In an interesting twist, I've successively run Disk Utility and SMART
Reporter on the drive, and they both pass the drive. Now SMART Utility
does give more thorough feedback, but is it being too pessimestic? I
think what I'll do is repartition the drive and zero out the drive
seven times. If it doesn't lose (m)any more sectors, I'll pronounce it
healthy, if a little dodgy. Do folks here trust Disk Utility to report
a healthy drive?
Thanks,
Eric
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