To: Lazamataz
Spare sectors.
They are built into the low-level drive formatting. Your hard drive swaps it in, when it see a failing sector.
OSes do another level on top.
40 posted on
08/04/2021 5:38:06 AM PDT by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: ConservativeMind
I see. So it is really not so much a ‘ticking time bomb’ as this poster breathlessly proclaimed, but more of a ‘yeah stuff breaks eventually’. :^)
47 posted on
08/04/2021 6:11:36 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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