Oof! Turns out, my offsite backups have never been particularly reliable. I keep 'em on the 10TB HDD from the old mirror now.
I guess, i don't get to resell that old 4TB HDD, then. Meh, i'm not gonna use it myself, and eBay has this "defective / spare parts" setting - 20 bucks incl. shipping.
🧵 2/n i'm still badblocksing my old HGST Ultrastar 7K6000 4TB (HUS726040ALA610/0F23090).
For some reason, it only produces read errors with the 0xAA test pattern. Reallocated_Sector_Ct increased to 19, after the 2nd pass (13/0/0).
I've started a 5-pack of 0xAA write-read passes - i intent to "burn out" (forcefully reallocate) every last remaining "weak" sector.
This is gonna take the whole week; imma stress this poor puppy until it's not degrading much further.
🧵 3/n this is bloody embarrassing! 😳
The -p parameter DOES NOT specify the test pattern!
I need to stop #VibeCoding! 🤣
…blame #Mistral small 3 #LLM #AI via #DuckDuckGo duck.ai 😅
Howerver, i've decided to make it extra stressful, by inverting the test pattern.
1 pass = testing inverting 0x55, then another inverting 0xAA - the corrected script in the screenshot.
edit: correct screenshot-final2-corrected2.png 🤣 🍻
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