On occasion a clients case has severe blocks of bad sectors that the hard drive requires to be cloned. The cloning process basically copies all the good blocks of data and ignores the bad blocks on to another separate usable drive. Its a bit more complicated than that in real life, but thats the general [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Seagate “Quality Control Unit” Quits
November 26th, 2011
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It used to be I would receive a Seagate drive a few times a week. Most drives with issues, mostly physical or firmware related mind you, would be from Maxtor owners. Now its seems that since Seagate took over Maxtor, the quality control gremlins have started to infect there new owners. Currently it would be [...]
