Can you tell me why you go for 2^12 but then choose (2^16)-1 as an alternative? Wouldn’t that create alignment issues?

Alzheimers patient

Aren’t there added concerns of batch-faults like impurities in the metals used in production that will ruin a whole set of drives, when buying in bulk? Also, if they’re all shipped in the same package, and that package suffers abuse, won’t that ruin all or most of the drives?

If you like that one, how about “I have a bunch of 6 year olds hooked up in my basement” to refer to an old array of disks on a dedicated server.

The future is now

This gets way more sympathy if you leave out the HDD part. Just sayin’

I’ve dd copied all my playstation 2 disks to a NAS, because they were getting old. Running those games on the ps2 off an external disk is a lot more effort than just putting the disc in though, so they are still my main goto

I’ve noticed all my seagate drives have millions or errors, even the new ones, almost immediately after buying them. Western Digitals had zero for that same SMART category. I thought it was the fact that they tried to shingle the magnetic particles or something, leading to a lot of recoverable errors by design. Should I be sending all my seagate drives back for warranty?