Thread: What is best way to monitor for bad sectors?
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Old 10th August 2008
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Yeah! In theory bad sectors are managed through S.M.A.R.T., but frankly, if bad sectors are a concern and have to be monitored, junk that bloody hard drive.
Once S.M.A.R.T. signals unrecoverrable errors the drive already is dead and begs for a sysutils/testdisk of last resort..
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