HD Test/repair software

[spekyteky]

Hi folks,
I work for a company who at present are looking into the possible setting up of repairing and testing of hard disk drives.....the drives in particular would be FATA, SAS and SCSI U320....We have run a few pilots and most of the fails we are seeing are growth defect errors....so am looking to see what would be the best software or method of repairing these or trying to repair if that's possible.....any advice would be appreciated

Spekyteky..............

[guru]

Good luck with that

[spekyteky]

Hi Guru,
Thanks for the reply but your not sounding to convincing lol I take it we would be wasting a lot of time and effort....any advice apart from good luck? lol

[labtech]

Let's say any one of your drives has been "repaired", then what will you do with it? What's the end goal?
If the goal is re-introduce in production for critical data storage and even backup, you are likely wasting your time. Why? The drives have become very degraded over time. Once the bad sectors have been remapped and firmware altered properly as part of the "refurbishing process", then more than likely more errors will follow soon and ultimately will end with unexpected giant headaches. More like migraines.
So, if your job depends on "guaranteeing" that these drives are of good use in such production environment, don't commit to it.

Cost-to-result-to-end goal ratia? Not so good.