<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/27 Alex Butcher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythlist@assursys.co.uk">mythlist@assursys.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Ian Clark wrote:<br>
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> 2008/8/27 John Drescher <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">>> If you see any bad sectors then something really bad is happening..<br>
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> Ironically, smart status on my root drive on my home server shows there's 11<br>
> remapped sectors... and it's still going strong.... (although I do expect it<br>
> to die any month now...)<br>
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> It maybe should be called notthatSMART<br>
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</div>Naw, SMART is just exposing something that's been going on for years; drives<br>
(including Iomega Zip discs) have come with spare blocks for at least a<br>
decade now, and the drive electronics will remap as required on write. As<br>
long as no manufacturer-specified threshold is reached and the drive isn't<br>
operated sufficiently out-of-spec (heat, vibration, shock) to cause<br>
immediate damage, you should still have a decent amount of life left. Nearly<br>
all my drives have some reallocated blocks.</blockquote><div><br>All my data drives in my RAID are at 0, but that hd in particular is an old 160G IBM SATA I've had for years, but it's always been a bit funny since the last PSU it was attached to died. It's also on 24/7 too.<br>
<br>I checked today too, and I'm now at 14 reallocated sectors. I'll continue to use it until it dies though. (Hmm, it is the root drive on my server so maybe I'll end up learning a valuable lesson about backups too.)<br>
</div><div><br>Heh, looking at the power on hours count it's been powered on for 798 days so far, so it's had a good life!<br>
<br>Ian<br><br></div></div><br></div>