On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:44:33 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are for sale > in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on several of them > and started experimenting. The results so far are puzzling. > > I do get errors. So I decided to do scans for bad blocks. The drives > I'm using are all Western Digital because they have been the lowest cost > at the times I buy at Costco. Also all are 500GB.
(...) Try passing the SMART test (by using the manufacturer's test disk or "smartctl", but as they are attached to a USB port, smartmontools may have problems to detect and scan the device). It won't tell you a concrete number of "bad blocks", but higher values in "Reallocated Sectors Count" could give you an idea about the remapping operations performed by the disk (the lower the better). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.04.09.06.38...@gmail.com
