[mythtv-users] Seagate 1.5TB for 109.99

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:28 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:21 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>> On Thu, March 26, 2009 10:03 am, John Drescher wrote:
>>> Do you guys remember hard drives from 20 years ago? I mean you paid
>>> $700 USA for them and they all came with a list of 100s of bad sectors
>>> standard and as you used them more would be added.
>>
>> Yup, I remember that.  There'd be a "defect list" printed on top of the
>> drive with the C/H/S numbers of the known bad sectors.
>>
>> Actually, though, drives still have defect lists; it's just that it's
>> handled internally, now, and they have a certain number of "extra" sectors
>> that can be used to replace ones that fail.  When you get the drive the
>> known factory defects have already been remapped.  New ones that fail as
>> you use the drive are remapped on the fly and that's what you see in the
>> SMART data.
>>
>
> I do know about the remapping and the extra sectors however I was
> unsure weather or not the remapped sector count actually included the
>

Wrong whether. At least today I can blame my bad English on the cold
meds I am on since I contracted a really bad sore throat yesterday..


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John M. Drescher