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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
Subject: Re: Some very basic questions
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:27:59 +0200
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:31:37 -0400
Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]
> If you have remapped a big chunk of the sectors (say more than 10%), you 
> should grab the data off the disk asap and replace it. Worry less about 
> errors during read, writes indicate more serious errors.

Ok, now for the bad news: money is invented.
If you replace a disk before real failure you won't get replacement from the
manufacturer. That may sound irrelevant to someone handling 5 disks, but is
significant if handling 500 or more. The replacement rate is indeed much
higher than people think from their home pcs.

> [...]
> ric

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Regards,
Stephan