[GRLUG] Data wiping / recovery / paranoia

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Tim Schmidt wrote:
> 
 > To a limited extent, drive manufacturers have bin'd drives just like
> CPU manufacturers do too...  making a 40Gb drive with an unacceptable
> number of errors (or a single platter that's the cheapest manufactured
> at the time) act like a 20Gb.  That's where the most hopeful talk was
> of 'drive overclocking'...  but again...  no results that I've seen.

I think in your 40GB/20GB example the manufacturer could put in only one
read/write head, rather than 2. They would also have a way of selling platters
with one defective side.

> --tim

Ray