What to do with HDD?

Question

Hard disks

Answer 1

Come on, bury it right away! I have seen disks with a third of the surface in bad sectors, and which, nevertheless, work stably for years (sections are cut, of course, on stable "islands").
The main thing when diagnosing a broken disk is to understand whether it continues to crumble or whether this process has stopped a long time ago (as doctors say, the patient is stable insevere condition). To find out, you need to write down the values ​​​​of all the "prophesying trouble" SMART parameters, and run some kind of heavy test (such as butterfly-read / write in Victorya) for a day so that the hard warms up thoroughly, then measure the parameters again and only then pass judgment. If the value of not a single critical parameter has increased by one, then the hard drive is stable, it is quite possible to leave it in service, cut sections so as to bypass all the broken "islands" and use it to store movies, torrents and other file dumps. Of course, there is no question of storing at least some valuable documents on it.