On 04/26/2011 06:49 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 20:54 -0500, Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
>> so a disk with bad sectors can work normally, but if the disk runs out
>> from spare sectors well at that moment the disk is bad
>
> Are "spare sectors" special areas of the drive, or merely any space
On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 20:54 -0500, Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> so a disk with bad sectors can work normally, but if the disk runs out
> from spare sectors well at that moment the disk is bad
Are "spare sectors" special areas of the drive, or merely any space that
you haven't saved data to?
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Alan Evans wrote:
>> I've not had any
>> issues with the 7200.12 drives.
>
> Those models are just as bad. I went through three 7200.12 1TB drives in
> a few months.
Well that's not good to hear.
Fortunately, I've only got a couple o
Alan Evans wrote:
> I've not had any
> issues with the 7200.12 drives.
Those models are just as bad. I went through three 7200.12 1TB drives in
a few months. Seagate would only ship me refurbished drives as
replacements and refused to send me a new drive.
The drives were in a well ventilated
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>> I can't believe that a drive would go bad
>> after a few months use. I have other Seagate drives that have been in
>> use for years without any issues.
>
> You should be aware that there
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I can't believe that a drive would go bad
> after a few months use. I have other Seagate drives that have been in
> use for years without any issues.
You should be aware that there is a certain firmware revision of
Seagate drives that has s
On 04/25/2011 08:11 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>
> I also have 2 other external drives (both 1.5Tb) that work just fine. In
> fact they sit right next to the Seagate Go drive. What's interesting is
> that when I boot to Win 7 and test the drive Windows says there are no
> problems (of course it is
On 04/25/11 18:11, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> On 04/25/11 17:45, JD wrote:
>> On 04/25/11 17:36, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>>> I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as
>>> NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is
>>> failing. Specifically it's tel
On 04/25/11 17:45, JD wrote:
> On 04/25/11 17:36, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>> I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as
>> NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is
>> failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors.
>>
On 04/25/11 17:36, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as
> NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is
> failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors.
>There are no messages in /var/log/m
I purchased a 1Tb Seagate Go drive a few months ago. It's formatted as
NTFS. Today I started getting reports from smartd that the disk is
failing. Specifically it's telling me that there are many bad sectors.
There are no messages in /var/log/messages indicating any failures.
Why is smartd
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