Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm >> thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test >> every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of >> testing? I realize no one knows with 100% certainty... > As you already said, nobody knows with 100% certainty. > > In the failures I've experienced I'd expect it to start catching > errors within a few days. However, on those drives the relocated > sector count never increases, which suggests that the firmware never > relocated those sectors when overwritten, which seems brain-dead to > me. > > If the drive relocates the sectors, then conceivably it could go quite > a long time until having errors, probably in an entirely different set > of sectors. > > Even if it doesn't relocate, the reliability of the bad sectors could > be high or low. > > Rich > >
Yep. I guess the best thing to do is test the stuffin out of it and hope the tests don't wear it out. lol As I told my ex more than once, time tells. Dale :-) :-)
