Re: Advanced format drives with block errors

2011-02-06 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 02/05/2011 08:28 PM, compdoc wrote: >> One of these drives had a faulty block which the drive had not been able > to automatically relocate. > > > Just curious, what's the reallocated sector count for the drive? And how > many bad sectors do you feel comfortable with? > > I used to live with dri

RE: Advanced format drives with block errors

2011-02-05 Thread compdoc
> One of these drives had a faulty block which the drive had not been able to automatically relocate. Just curious, what's the reallocated sector count for the drive? And how many bad sectors do you feel comfortable with? I used to live with drives with a low reallocated sector count, but I rece

Advanced format drives with block errors

2011-02-05 Thread Terry Barnaby
Hi, Just a bit of info. I have some Western Digital Caviar Green (Adv. Format), WD20EARS drives. These have the "new" 4096 byte physical sector. One of these drives had a faulty block which the drive had not been able to automatically relocate. I tried to force a relocation by overwriting the blo