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Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed?

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From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, alt.comp.periphs.hdd
Subject Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed?
Date Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:37:40 +1000
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"Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com> wrote in message 
news:yw1xtx9lxhm3.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com...
> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> "Vic RR Garcia" <VicGar007@at-gmail.dot.com> wrote in message
>> news:HAx5v.58842$Pk4.7889@fx28.iad...
>>> On 04/22/14 07:59, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>>> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Those results look bad? :(
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not too bad if they don't keep increasing.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Really?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, a few reallocated sectors are no big deal on a drive
>>>>> that old. Some of those older drives don't handle mains
>>>>> failure that well and can produce a bad sector that way
>>>>> and then just reallocate that bad sector.
>>>>
>>>> Disks are so cheap there's no reason not to replace them at first sign
>>>> of trouble.
>>>
>>> +1 to that!
>>> Any disk, over 3 years old and under 250 GB, just replace it at
>>> first sight of problems.
>>
>> I don’t bother with drives that small and it works fine to keep using
>> drives which only have a few reallocated sectors.
>
> Drives work fine until they don't.

Hardly any of mine have ever died.

They mostly get replaced because they are too small.

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A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 09:57 -0700
  Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 10:55 -0700
    Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 11:56 -0700
    Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-20 06:56 +1000
      Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 17:34 -0700
        Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-20 13:02 +1000
          Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-19 23:16 -0700
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2014-04-20 07:19 -0500
              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-20 09:54 -0700
              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-20 09:57 -0700
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2014-04-21 07:56 -0500
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-21 08:08 -0700
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-22 01:31 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-21 19:02 -0700
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 05:24 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2014-04-22 19:03 -0500
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 14:42 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-04-22 23:27 -0700
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2014-04-23 09:03 -0500
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 06:32 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-24 00:26 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2014-04-23 18:47 -0500
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2014-10-19 21:05 -0500
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 05:13 +1100
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2014-10-20 16:04 -0500
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 07:01 +1100
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2014-10-21 15:56 -0500
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2014-10-22 22:43 +0000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-10-24 08:18 -0700
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2014-10-24 15:39 +0000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2014-10-24 20:23 -0500
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 11:20 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-24 09:47 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 06:35 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-24 00:23 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 11:17 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-24 09:55 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-25 05:17 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-27 19:12 +0200
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-28 19:59 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 05:22 +1000
          Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-20 11:08 +0200
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-04-20 10:13 +0100
              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-04-20 12:28 +0200
              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-21 05:52 +1000
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-21 05:50 +1000
              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? cjt <cheljuba@prodigy.net> - 2014-04-20 19:35 -0500
          Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2014-04-22 12:59 +0100
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Vic RR Garcia <VicGar007@at-gmail.dot.com> - 2014-04-22 13:23 -0400
              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 05:30 +1000
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2014-04-22 20:57 +0100
                Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 14:37 +1000
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 05:28 +1000
      Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-03 19:11 -0800
        Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2015-01-04 12:11 -0600
          Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 12:38 -0800
            Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? mjb@signal11.invalid (Mike) - 2015-01-04 23:02 +0000
              Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 15:21 -0800
        Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-01-05 08:18 +1100
          Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 15:21 -0800
      Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 06:44 -0800
  Re: A dying very old HDD confirmed? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-04-20 06:55 +1000

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