Something new? I thought no failure code from their diagnostic = no rma? On Dec 10, 2011 3:17 PM, "Thane Sherrington" < [email protected]> wrote:
> At 07:14 PM 10/12/2011, Joshua MacCraw wrote: > >> Your passing up a great tool, don't let the age fool ya! >> >> As to bad sectors = failing drive that's not nearly accurate if it's the >> first few failing and lots of spares available. In fact one don't think a >> vendor will give you an rma for that either. All drives have bad sectors, >> remember the old days of entering them manually on a new drive? Now they >> do >> that at manufacturing and allow for a few more as normal. >> > > Western Digital happily RMAs all drives showing bad sectors. > > T > >
