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how many reallocated sectors indicate a drive should be thrown out?
I purchased some used hard drives on Ebay and crystal disk info is flagging them as bad due to reallocated sectors. Do reallocated sectors show the drive will fail soon or could the drive work fo...
4095 errors
this is a throw away item
have it returned and get refund
cpu8088 wrote:
4095 errors
this is a throw away item
have it returned and get refund
Agreed. You were sold a bad disk.
Is a hard drive with 4095 reallcoated sectors errors and around 40,000 hours mean imminent failure ? I have been offered 50% refund to keep the drives. Bringing priced to $19 X 10 drives. I am not sure if they have value as backup storage for things already in a raid system or if better to return these drive and be done with them.
What do you think? How serious is 4,000+ reallocated sectors errors?
Thanks.
well 40,000 hours means 1667 days or 4.57 years.
generally enterprise grade hard drive life span is 5 years while desktop drive is about 3 years
with such high relocation errors and age i would still refrain from using them.
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