Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Hey Richard, > > Just keep in mind that depends on your usage the disk might get bad > sectors. > As much as many including me would like to not have them happen they do > happen for any HDD vendor! > Some things that affect DISK lifespan

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-16 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Richard, Just keep in mind that depends on your usage the disk might get bad sectors. As much as many including me would like to not have them happen they do happen for any HDD vendor! Some things that affect DISK lifespan: - enterprise\server level usage on a desktop disk - high times of o

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 21:00 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:02 PM, SternData a.com> > wrote: > > > I just got one of these to replace one that was dropping sectors: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T3GRN2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref > > _=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:02 PM, SternData wrote: > I just got one of these to replace one that was dropping sectors: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T3GRN2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00 Yeah, I shopped around a bit and decided to give a referb with 1 year warranty

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-15 Thread SternData
On 02/15/2016 04:47 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Um I'm not sure what the threshold should be for this drive (2TB) > but I would think that having over 7000 bad sectors it would not be > considered OK. > > In either case I plan on replacing the drive as soon as funds allow. > > Thanks, > Richard