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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.