On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:53:18 +0100, John Jordan
<junk@jaj22.org.uk> wrote:

>Trimble wrote:
>>
>> I have A Maxtor 120Gig IDE...
>
>Oh, just throw it away :-)

Don't be a dumbass, statisically speaking, the failure rate
is not enough to abandon a drive unless there are typical
symptoms of a problem.

>
>So tempted not to reply to the rest of the post...
>
>> What does the only SMART fail "Re-allocated Sector Count" mean ??
>
>The re-allocated sector count is the number of sectors on the HD that
>have been detected as bad and remapped. A SMART fail probably means that
>you have a good few hundred bad sectors, and this usually gets worse.
>
>Save yourself a lot of hassle and dump it.

Save yourself the bother and quit pretending that bashing a
line of drives implies knowledge. The FACT is, the sheer
number of drives out in the field from OEMs, will make
certain makes and models have higher problem reports without
it being a higher actual problem rate.

This coming from someone who has over a dozen Maxtors
spinning right now and no higher failure rate than other
makes, models. A dozen is actually being conservative,
bashing any certain model is not useful untill you can
attribute a failure to a particular fault point. IF you can
do so, please share that information. Otherwise you are
only a silly troll.