7 Oct
2005
7 Oct
'05
15:56
Kevanf1 wrote:
On 07/10/05, Bryan Tyson
wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 02:52, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I would be unhappy with a drive that had bad sectors in this modern age. I wouldn't trust it. In my experience, when a drive starts having bad sectors, the end is near. It will just get more and more bad sectors until it becomes unusable. You should back up your data immediately and replace the drive.
Bryan
Every hard drive ships brand new with some bad sectors....
Modern drives have spare sectors, which are used to replace bad ones. When bad sectors are visible, it means all the spares have been used and the drive is well on it's way to failure.