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So I scavenged 2 EIDE drives from an unused DIsh Network DVR that was left out on the street. A 250gb and a 120gb Maxtor Quickview drives.
After quite a bit on searching, I only found scraps of conflicting info about the hard drives being used for normal operations like a PC or backup storage.
One person says its not meant other then DVR use because the drives are specifically made to skip over bad sectors completely or skips it over much faster, giving the OS less time to retry reading the data off the bad sector.
Another person says its fine for other uses because the 'skipping over the bad sector' feature is only a specific and almost unknown command from the ATA-7 specifications and is only used IF the software is told to do so.
Any insight about this? I hate to dedicate these large drives to DVR-use only.
After quite a bit on searching, I only found scraps of conflicting info about the hard drives being used for normal operations like a PC or backup storage.
One person says its not meant other then DVR use because the drives are specifically made to skip over bad sectors completely or skips it over much faster, giving the OS less time to retry reading the data off the bad sector.
Another person says its fine for other uses because the 'skipping over the bad sector' feature is only a specific and almost unknown command from the ATA-7 specifications and is only used IF the software is told to do so.
Any insight about this? I hate to dedicate these large drives to DVR-use only.