[Novalug] smart and bad sectors

Nick Danger nick@hackermonkey.com
Tue Jul 9 07:50:05 EDT 2013


On 07/08/2013 09:10 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> What guidelines do you use to decide if a drive
> should be replaced?

Besides the obvious technical things (smart reports it bad, it just
doesn't work, overheats), I go by the "if I am worried about it, it
needs to be replaced" reasoning. Given the general cost of drives, if I
have any concern I just replace them. Easier than loss of data or the
down time of recovering from backup.


Nick





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