Hard Disk with 20% health shows no bad sectors in Surface Test
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22 minutes ago, igan3w_ said:Yeah... But if I just used those drives for backup? I’ve read somewhere that using a drive with bad sectors will corrupt the data, is it true?
Especially for backups I wouldn't trust them anymore, as you'd like them to be reliable. Sometimes bad sectors can fix themselves when overwritten with 0s, but I'd still keep an eye on them. Use at your own risk I guess.
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