[plug] Using a HDD with Badsectors

[Cameron Patrick]

Mark J Gaynor wrote:

> My experience with drives starting to give errors is to go get a new
> device before total failure occurs and you loose all the data on that
> drive. Time is money and is something a lot of hobbyists don't
> calculate into the cost.

A lot of hobbyists are using time in which they wouldn't otherwise be
earning money, so time _isn't_ money.  Things are very different in a
business situation, of course.

> Bottom line for me is once a drive starts to fail, you look at the
> replacement process as soon as possible.

Indeed.  Even for a hobbyist, the value of the data on a hard drive is
typically much greater than the cost of a new drive - and $100-$200 buys
a ridiculous amount of storage.

Cameron