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Old October 29th 17, 02:22 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Mayayana
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"Paul" wrote

| Now, what's wrong with that "theory". Well, on the Seagate
| drives I've got, I've *never* seen Current Pending Sector
| go non-zero. Even when other activity indicates the drive
| is sick, and Current Pending should be growing. Some brand
| of drive, probably is using Current Pending Sector, but
| not in the case of the Seagates I've owned.
|
| Current Pending returns to zero, if an opportunity comes
| along to write the entire drive.
|
| Reallocated Sector Count is a measure of how many spares
| have been used up. It's thresholded, so only after a large
| number of sectors were spared, does the count value go non-zero.
| The result is, the user is unaware exactly how large the
| spared sector count is.

And that's with all drives? All SMART drives? I'm
not clear about the context here. It sounds like
you're saying that with recent vintage drives the
health reports can't be trusted. That isn't really news,
is it? Does that have any connection to the
OS/Windows version?


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