A Defective Component

As I wrote before, last November a HDD of my desktop PC failed and I bought a new one.

Recently, I read an interesting article. According to the author, as HDD capacity got extremely bigger than before, some HDD vendors sometimes omit physical formatting. Thus, we often see
defective sectors after going into production phase. :(

In other word, it might be possible to use normally those drives which once looked defective if we do physical format by ourselves.

So, I tried. :)

I downloaded "Drive Fitness Test Tool" from Hitachi GST web page, and the 2 pictures below show the consequence.



In my 160GB SATA driver case, it took about 3 hours.



Indeed a defective drive ... orz