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Subject:
What's the average number of spare sectors are there in today's hard drives?
Category: Computers Asked by: hansvoralberg-ga List Price: $50.00 |
Posted:
27 Dec 2004 12:11 PST
Expires: 26 Jan 2005 12:11 PST Question ID: 447840 |
What's the average number of spare sectors use to replace defective sectors aka bad sectors in hard drives nowsaday? And what I means with nowadays are harddrives with capacity of 120GB or above. Is there an average number of spare sectors per cylinders/tracks across manufacturer? |
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Re: What's the average number of spare sectors are there in today's hard drives?
From: phossil-ga on 27 Dec 2004 13:38 PST |
Spare sectors (bad sector replacements) are physical sectors that occupy space at the end of the last track in the cylinder. They are deducted from the sectors/track of the last track of each cylinder since they are not available to the file system for data allocation. I hope it helps. Phossil |
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Re: What's the average number of spare sectors are there in today's hard drives?
From: hansvoralberg-ga on 27 Dec 2004 17:45 PST |
I knew that already, but I also heard that there are also spares per cylinder. And just really curious about how many of them, not as much as where are they. Thanks for the info anyway. |
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Re: What's the average number of spare sectors are there in today's hard drives?
From: funnyorange-ga on 19 Jan 2005 12:16 PST |
Since engineering of hard drives has been vastly improved since the late 80's when spares were popular, most hard drives don't have spares. Spares have been proven to drastically slow down a computer - most modern OS file system tables, drivers, and cache managers are capable of managing bad clusters better than the hard drive controller can. So, the answer is zero to the "how many" question and nowhere to the "where" question. |
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