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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 08:52:43PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Well, before spending too much time with this, try finding some study
> (I've read some from Google I think, just I don't have the url at hand) on
> what is the estimated lifetime of a disk after bad sectors start appearing. 

Also worth considering is that error rate profile for flash devices
might be quite different from HDD's.

					- Ted