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WD HDD Industry Will Be Supply Constrained Due to Thailand Flooding
luchina:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 07, 2012, 02:51:10 PM ---ehhhhhhhhhhhh... i wish i could get HDDs at those ridiculous discounts too...
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I know, I got quite lucky. It was DSF offer (Dubai Shopping Festival). There are lot of other offer's too, and quiet nice too. The festival is between 5 Jan to 5 Feb. (the HDD offer was between 5 Jan to 14 Jan, part 1 of the sale)
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 07, 2012, 07:26:55 AM ---^ you could try filling it up to it's brim and check if it'll cause an error or breakdown, if its stable then you can conclude that every sector is working fine.
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I meant before transferring the stuff into the drive, not transfer first, check later.
per:
--- Quote from: luchina on January 07, 2012, 03:25:29 PM ---I meant before transferring the stuff into the drive, not transfer first, check later.
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You could always try a program like hdtune pro, with a bad-block scanner.
Or use the one built into windows/macos X/linux whatever. :)
It takes a long time to check every block of large drives, though.
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: luchina on January 07, 2012, 03:25:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 07, 2012, 02:51:10 PM ---ehhhhhhhhhhhh... i wish i could get HDDs at those ridiculous discounts too...
--- End quote ---
I know, I got quite lucky. It was DSF offer (Dubai Shopping Festival). There are lot of other offer's too, and quiet nice too. The festival is between 5 Jan to 5 Feb. (the HDD offer was between 5 Jan to 14 Jan, part 1 of the sale)
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 07, 2012, 07:26:55 AM ---^ you could try filling it up to it's brim and check if it'll cause an error or breakdown, if its stable then you can conclude that every sector is working fine.
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I meant before transferring the stuff into the drive, not transfer first, check later.
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quite easy actually, creating multiple duplicates of a large iso will fill the drive up, well technically anything large should do.
Freedom Kira:
In other words...
1. Select one file.
2. Copy the file.
3. Paste the file repeatedly (just hold down ctrl + V for a while).
But no, that's a horrible way to test a hard drive. per's suggestion is much better.
... Anyway, we're just a bit off topic, aren't we?
kitamesume:
ya it is a bad idea, but on my end which i get to do it anyway, because i duplicate one HDD's contents to the other and let it sit like that for a few days, delete the contents of the old HDD and fill it up with new files.
no idea, the real topic is about HDD shortage, well, guessing it'll last till next December, since prices doesn't drop like a rock. companies will abuse the risen prices until someone causes an avalanche.
scenario:
"you usually sell candies for 1$ each and alot of people buys, suddenly the market became expensive making you sell candies for 2$ each but since people knows about it they'll still buy, the market settles and you can now sell candies back at 1$ each but people got used to buying 2$ each, will you go back to selling 1$ each?"
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