On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 06:52:10 AM Mick wrote: > On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 13:05:04 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 > > What triggers a relocation? I also have a drive which shows a sector > relocation pending, but for a few days now and after some tests that showed > no errors, it won't relocate it.
I think a write to that sector should force a relocation. -- Joost
