On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 21:27 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Volker > Kuhlmann<list0...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > > Any disk with bad sectors within warranty goes back to maker. Period. > > Agreed, I received two 750GBs about three months ago (with consecutive > serial numbers, sadly) and one has failed already, been straight back > to the vendor and been replaced. > Please tell me they weren't wd greens. I've had a 1TB fail within 5 minutes... in fact I've had more fail this year than in the last 10.
It is questionable in this case whether it's a disk failure or not... it was the file system that fell apart and that's not *guaranteed* to be the disk at fault. Steve
