[pchelpers] Re: Hard Drive Lifespan.

Hi John,

Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 5:44:18 PM, you wrote:

JD> Three years is a typical lifespan for most hard drives. Some even carry
JD> guarantees for that long, although most these days are for 1 year.
JD> Anything you get after that is a bonus. Bad sectors are early signs of
JD> age. Data then needs to be moved to good sectors using scandisk or some
JD> similar utility.

Many vendors will accept "bad sectors" as a good reason for an RMA
request, especially if they think it's for a business (which is
irrelevant and also isn't their business). The only problem is that
the replacement drive is almost certainly refurbished, which means
that someone else had trouble with it at some point.

-- 
Scott.




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