Comment on How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions?

geekworking@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It depends on the exact nature of the failure. Controller errors are usually a complete failure. Media failure (magnetic spots on the disk or failed cells in ssd) are often sporadic and only impact data stored in those spots.

Regardless, drives rarely give you any warning. Look at any warning as a gift and get everything off and replace it ASAP.

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