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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1796339" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>No. I don't recall, sorry. that statistic was part of an article on Wikipedia. I know it was several years ago because I was still writing for AboutThis Particular Macintosh e-zine at the time. I don't think the article was really looking at which was "better". It was a comparison of various programs. I'll keep looking for the stat but my Google skills seem to have deserted me at the moment.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to reading bad blocks that number may / may not be helpful. If I remember the article correctly most programs used a lower number of read attempts before it declared a failure. The good news is that's more opportunities to read the data. but the bad news is that's more strain on potentially failing drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1796339, member: 131855"] No. I don't recall, sorry. that statistic was part of an article on Wikipedia. I know it was several years ago because I was still writing for AboutThis Particular Macintosh e-zine at the time. I don't think the article was really looking at which was "better". It was a comparison of various programs. I'll keep looking for the stat but my Google skills seem to have deserted me at the moment. When it comes to reading bad blocks that number may / may not be helpful. If I remember the article correctly most programs used a lower number of read attempts before it declared a failure. The good news is that's more opportunities to read the data. but the bad news is that's more strain on potentially failing drive. [/QUOTE]
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