bad blocks on SATA disk: another war story and a request for advice

[William Muriithi]

William,
>
> Last time I got bad sectors, I set up a partition (1GB) containing those
> bad sectors.  But, soon, the number and size of "bad partitions" grow.
>
> Real advice is to get a SSD. :-)
>
Hmm, I think for reliability, I would stay with hard disk. SSD fails
without without warning.  At least with hard disk, you get warnings

Why SSD shine is on speed.  Oh and can comfortably survive being dropped

William

William
> >
> > The disk is a Hitachi 5K750 HTS547575A9E384 750G 2.5" drive.  I bought
> > it as an external drive because that was cheaper than a bare drive.  I
> > cracked it open and installed it in my nettop.  Consequently there is
> > no warranty on it as far as I know.
>
> I did the same with Hitachi 3GB USB harddisk, and it soon gave me so
> much errors that it was unusable.  If someone wants a dead-ish 3TB
> harddisk, let me know.
> --
> William
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