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Re: [LUG] Checking a hard disk
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] Checking a hard disk
- From: Roland Tarver <roland.tarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:47:07 +0000
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On 22/02/15 19:36, Simon Avery wrote:
On 22 February 2015 at 19:17, Roland Tarver
<roland.tarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:roland.tarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
With this encouraging result, should I take it that the disk is
totally fine to use or should I be running another diagnostic test?
Why did you run BB anyway - do you have a reason to think it's dodgy?
(Other than like every other hard drive that has ever existed, it is
merely lying in wait for the absolute worst time to fail. )
Yes I did. Basically the disk is external and used as a backup. About a
year ago (!) it spewed out some weird I/O error messages. Sufficient for
me to dash straight out and buy 2 brand new disks, of differing makes,
in order to beef up the [resiliance | reliability?] of my backup regime.
The 1TB "problem" disk has basically sat on shelf ever since - until now!
The test does what it's designed to do, but hdd firmware can mask bad
blocks when it locks them away from the OS.
Noted - thanks for the intel.
roly :-)
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