Maxtor or WD?

[Keith G. Robertson-Turner]

LinuxMedia wrote:
>> I was somewhat surprised that no one here had anything negative to
>> say about Maxtor, so I thought I should post my experiences. I'm
>> glad your experience has been different, sofar, but caveat
>> emptor...
> 
> Actually, I posted early in this thread about how several Maxtor
> drives died on me and I had decided to never use Maxtor drives again.
> And I had mentioned that I (thought) I read somewhere that Maxtor
> doesn't fully support the standardized method for checking for bad
> spots on drives. I forget what that whole mechanism is called.

It's called "defect management", which works by marking bad sectors as
unusable, then mapping them to unused sectors.

http://tinyurl.com/l3srz (pcmag.com)

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K.