So you get a SSD from ebay, you install it to test it before using it...
It only has 3 power on hours, but has 1 re-allocated sector and 10 soft errors, the drive in question is an Intel Enterprise drive. You decide to format it (long) and see if any error # increase.
- If no additional errors do you keep the drive?
- Do you RMA/RETURN the drive no matter what, any errors or relocated sectors = instant return?
What about for a HDD that you plan to use in RaidZ2 or RaidZ3?
- Do you only put in HDD that are perfect, or are some relocated sectors OK?
I'm just curious what everyone's threshold is personally at home, and if you can share at work too I would find that interesting. As I keep adding more and more drives to various systems, and overall qty I'm finding it harder to find 'perfect' drives, or rather 8 perfect for this system, and 8 perfect for that system, etc... Obviously, my new drives if they're not perfect I will return but I'm talking about used and/or refurb. from ebay.
I personally am running some HDD in RaidZ2 that have a couple relocated sectors, and same with SSD. As long as the # doesn't increase after doing a full-disk (long) format and then doing some writing/reading and benchmarking I'll run them.
It only has 3 power on hours, but has 1 re-allocated sector and 10 soft errors, the drive in question is an Intel Enterprise drive. You decide to format it (long) and see if any error # increase.
- If no additional errors do you keep the drive?
- Do you RMA/RETURN the drive no matter what, any errors or relocated sectors = instant return?
What about for a HDD that you plan to use in RaidZ2 or RaidZ3?
- Do you only put in HDD that are perfect, or are some relocated sectors OK?
I'm just curious what everyone's threshold is personally at home, and if you can share at work too I would find that interesting. As I keep adding more and more drives to various systems, and overall qty I'm finding it harder to find 'perfect' drives, or rather 8 perfect for this system, and 8 perfect for that system, etc... Obviously, my new drives if they're not perfect I will return but I'm talking about used and/or refurb. from ebay.
I personally am running some HDD in RaidZ2 that have a couple relocated sectors, and same with SSD. As long as the # doesn't increase after doing a full-disk (long) format and then doing some writing/reading and benchmarking I'll run them.