On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 13:05:04 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full.  I'm
> > thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so.  If I do that and run the test
> > every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of
> > testing?  I realize no one knows with 100% certainty...
> 
> As you already said, nobody knows with 100% certainty.
> 
> In the failures I've experienced I'd expect it to start catching
> errors within a few days.  However, on those drives the relocated
> sector count never increases, which suggests that the firmware never
> relocated those sectors when overwritten, which seems brain-dead to
> me.
> 
> If the drive relocates the sectors, then conceivably it could go quite
> a long time until having errors, probably in an entirely different set
> of sectors.
> 
> Even if it doesn't relocate, the reliability of the bad sectors could
> be high or low.
> 
> Rich

What triggers a relocation?  I also have a drive which shows a sector 
relocation pending, but for a few days now and after some tests that showed no 
errors, it won't relocate it.

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Regards,
Mick