A brutal viewpoint however it does end in a classic 'I told you so' moment.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Barry Drake <[email protected]>wrote: > On 12/11/11 17:03, alan c wrote: > >> Yes, sorry, I was too vague, SMART errors. I explained to her at the time >> that we were not looking at her Windows, and this was information from the >> drive itself. And then later her son connected remotely, to Windows >> presumably, looked at the file system, saw nothing untoward, and rubbished >> Ubuntu. >> > I came across this last year. I bought a secondhand drive from Amazon. > Ubuntu immediately condemned it - it had close to the maximum of relocated > sectors. Windows, however, didn't tell me anything! Obviously I got in > touch with Amazon who gave me a full refund and told me to dump the drive. > The seller seems to have disappeared from Amazon's list! They would have > got away with it if I were a Windows user, as a few folk still seem to be. > > I'm told by a friend who was a developer on NTFS that it is an excellent > filesystem, misused by the overarching operating system. It only fragments > because its potential was never properly implemented. I tend to believe > this. > > Maybe your friend ought to have been allowed to ignore the SMART test. > The Ubuntu knocker would have had egg on his face in a month or two when > the drive dies catastrophically! > > Regards, Barry. > > -- > Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. > http://ubuntuadverts.org/ > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/> >
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