Jimmy Bradley wrote:
I'm just curious if any one else has noticed this. I've boughthard drives from both Walmart and Best Buy. If I can wait, I order them from newegg.com. I'm beginning to think that the staff at both Walmart and Best Buy, somewhere along the supply line must dribble the drives like basket balls. The reason I say that is all the drives I have bought from those two places fail within a few months time. Has anyone else noticed that? Just curious
You might want to consider them as possibly recycled drives. If you don't have a copy of SpinRite you can force the drive to check all the sectors with fdisk ...
fdisk -f -y -c -c
or if you are formatting,
mkfs.ext3 -c -c
will also do this check.
This will byte-swap check and should force updates of SMART statistics and bad-sector detection on the drive.
Jed