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   Philo to Marco Moock   
   Re: hdparm   
   01 Jul 24 06:37:35   
   
   From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 7/1/24 5:36 AM, Marco Moock wrote:   
   > On 30.06.2024 um 17:18 Uhr philo wrote:   
   >   
   >> One option was to deliberately create a bad sector.   
   >>   
   >> I imagine this is for some type of testing purposes..   
   >>   
   >> Just curious as to why someone would want to do that.   
   >   
   > Testing SMART monitoring tools, RAID and such stuff.   
   > If you operate high-availability infrastructure, such disks are mostly   
   > replaced.   
   >   
   > You can use that to see if the monitoring and maybe the   
   > automatic rebuild on a spare disk works.   
   >   
      
      
   Thanks   
      
   That makes sense   
      
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