In my transition from Drivebender to Drivepool/Scanner combo I'm noticing that a number of my 20 3-4 TB drives have bad sectors. In fact, my brand new WD Red 4TB drive had an unreadable sector out of box!
That being said, a few questions:
1. At what point should I look to RMA (if under warranty) a drive? How many unreadable sectors? I know that once one is identified the drive uses a different/replacement sector and some such...
2. After Stablebit scanner identifies the bad sector does it (on a firmware level) have the drive mark it as bad and thus it will be skipped if data is written to the drive? Or...is this dependent on Stablebit scanner being installed?
3. How often is too often to scan the drives? The default is 30 days but finding these bad sectors is frustrating and I'd rather identify them before I write data across them.
4. If I reinstall the OS - will all the drives need rescanning? Or will Stablebit somehow know that the drive has been recently scanned and marked healthy? (I'm assuming no)
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In my transition from Drivebender to Drivepool/Scanner combo I'm noticing that a number of my 20 3-4 TB drives have bad sectors. In fact, my brand new WD Red 4TB drive had an unreadable sector out of box!
That being said, a few questions:
1. At what point should I look to RMA (if under warranty) a drive? How many unreadable sectors? I know that once one is identified the drive uses a different/replacement sector and some such...
2. After Stablebit scanner identifies the bad sector does it (on a firmware level) have the drive mark it as bad and thus it will be skipped if data is written to the drive? Or...is this dependent on Stablebit scanner being installed?
3. How often is too often to scan the drives? The default is 30 days but finding these bad sectors is frustrating and I'd rather identify them before I write data across them.
4. If I reinstall the OS - will all the drives need rescanning? Or will Stablebit somehow know that the drive has been recently scanned and marked healthy? (I'm assuming no)
Thanks.
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