From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > I have 2 machines with such messages and hdd's just running fine for 2+ > > years. If ext2/3 fs is not marking such sectors as "bad, i dont use it > Generally, when I get a hard drive with some bad blocks, it seems to > indicate that things are going downhill and the drive isn't trustworthy > and given the price of hard drives, it's almost always easier/less > painful to copy it, replace it and the bonus is, you get high tech > paperweight. If the bad sectors are not growing and hdd is heavy used at read/write and just 1 sector is bad and it is still running 2+ years... i dont buy a new hdd :) I only know that HDD's the last years (since 1Gb drives where invented) are absolutly not reaching the lifetime of the first old "20Mb-540Mb HDD's"). On a old play machine i still use HDD's in the age of at least 15 years old. At present days if i buy a new hdd then it will die within 2 years in general. Always wondered why :) In short, high tech paperweight is not always a sollution in the financial picture :P Anyway, thats another story :P
