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This is pure theory. Ber shouldn't be counted per sector etc? We shouldn't tread all disk space as single entity, IMO
by iberator 9mo ago
This is pure theory. Ber shouldn't be counted per sector etc? We shouldn't tread all disk space as single entity, IMO
- thfuran 9mo agoWhy would that make a difference unless some sectors have higher/lower error rates than others?
- Dylan16807 9mo agoFor a fixed bit error rate, making your typical error 100x bigger means it will happen 100x less often. If the typical error is an entire sector, that's over 30 thousand bits. 1:1e15 BER could mean 1 corrupted bit every 100 terabytes or it could mean 1 corrupted sector every 4 exabytes. Or anything in between. If there's any more detailed spec for what that number means, I'd love to see it.