Definition: Auto Defect Retirement


If the drive finds defective sectors during reads or writes, they are automatically mapped out and relocated.




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Disk Crash

The term is used for any problem with the disk, usually hard disk. If hard disk is not able to read/write, it is known as hard disk crash. More specifically it is called head crash.

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