[plug] Using a HDD with Badsectors

[Chris Caston]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:40 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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

Use it as secondary drive for apt-cache or a scratch drive for trying
out various distros.

Don't use it for anything important that can't be replaced easily.

regards,

Chris