Spare and Pending Sectors as Indicators of Drive Deterioration and Failure
Spare sectors are extra sectors that are not part of the drive’s advertised capacity. They are reserved for use when a sector becomes unreadable or unwritable due to manufacturing defects or wear and tear. The drive has a mechanism to automatically detect such...
How to Deal with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive – Part 2
In this two-part article on “How to Deal with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive,” we have already looked at what bad sectors are and what causes them. We will now look at how your hard drive deals with them and what you can do to minimize the effect of bad sectors. How...