On 3/15/2019 11:29 AM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
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It's just occurred to me: What does BackBlaze count as a "failure"? Even
a few bad sectors, or total failure? The ST6000DX000 I replaced in my
NAS machine because of its 8 bad sectors is still in service in a
less-critical environment.

Perce

https://www.backblaze.com/how-long-d...ives-last.html

and

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/alas-...ephen-is-dead/

are two explanations of what failure means. Basically hard failure
(death) and soft failure (willing to keep on serving with errors).

Lynn