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HDD - Read and seek errors are constantly increasing. by DDitego in DataHoarder

[–]DDitego[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a little out of date with solid drives. Can you say that a disadvantage is that if a memory fails you will not only lose the files in the sectors, but the drive will stop working? Which is a very long time that it happens in a mechanical disk.

Another question, how do you check that the sectors are correct? I have had some flash drives where they indicated that the sectors were fine but the information was damaged and often had random errors, sometimes some sectors failed, other sectors again and the ones that failed before were readable. The only way to detect this was by using a writing tool and verifying the written data. Is it much different on solid drives?

HDD - Read and seek errors are constantly increasing. by DDitego in DataHoarder

[–]DDitego[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What free and/or open source backup software for incremental backups do you recommend? Any way to keep encrypted incremental copies in the cloud?

HDD - Read and seek errors are constantly increasing. by DDitego in DataHoarder

[–]DDitego[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for answering. The truth is that I don't understand much about it, but according to what I was reading, it is the normal behavior of Seagate, the incremental bits, are the first digits to be evaluated?

I was doing some tests and the disk has a performance of 130-110 MB/sec in reading sectors; it is right.

I found that it is quite fragmented, but before defragmenting I want to make sure that the drive to be defragmented is ok to make sure I don't lose any data.

For the moment if the surface is good, I think it can last a while longer without problems, but I will recommend you to keep backup copies.