Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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
>
>

Yep.  I guess the best thing to do is test the stuffin out of it and
hope the tests don't wear it out.  lol 

As I told my ex more than once, time tells. 

Dale

:-)  :-)