Re: Can a hard drive fix itself -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Can a hard drive fix itself
From: Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:36:42 +0000
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Heal itself, NO. But a timeout is not necessarily a failure. Did this happen during some sort of heavy IO like a backup? After the timeout, the RAID controller may have initiated a rebuild and now the data is rebuilt and the drive is OK. I would replace it just to be safe. If it erred once, it will do so again, and at the worst time, after another drive fails.

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