[ale] Which large capacity drives are you having the best luck with?

Pat Regan thehead at patshead.com
Thu Jan 6 20:03:18 EST 2011


On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:57:51 -0500
Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> In general ATA drives (sata and pata) don't do a sector re-allocation
> until they have known good data to put in the new sector.  Thus the
> DRIVE will only re-allocate on write.

This makes it sound like sata and pata do this to help the user when it
is really just another easy to implement feature that helps justify the
price difference between sas/scsi and sata/pata :)

Pat


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