4 Apr
2015
4 Apr
'15
2:43 p.m.
Oh and one other thing. Drives had inbuilt redundancy, to a point, errors that are encountered when reading or writing data often get re-mapped without the reader/writer being any the wiser -- the drive's firmware itself generally hides this /feature/ it may or may not be reflected in drive stats from smartctl requests. It's been said before that with drives of today's capacity, with all the automatic behind the scenes error correction that takes place so frequently, it's a miracle that drives work at all. This is exactly why you can't rely on ONE drive, it would be foolish to do so with data that cannot be replaced. A.