Hard Drives

[ewt]

Attn: Geeks.

If a hard drive works alright in electronic terms but has bad sectors, specifically about 17 of them at the end of the disk, is there a way to fix it? Or are they junk?

These are Seagate Barracuda 19.8GB SCSI drives. There are many of them so it is worth knowing if there is a reliable or even tenuous fix. Otherwise they shall be scrapped for magnets.

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I've seen even cheaper -- just today, I was at Costco, a warehouse store here in the United States (it sells to the public at fairly close to wholesale prices), and I saw a storage device that was USD 349 for a terabyte -- that comes out to something like 17 British pence per GB.