Trust but Verify

In a recent post a member posted some info that turned out to be not totally accurate. This was not done in an attempt a miss information or to decieve but was meant 'WITH GOOD INTENT' to be helpful to other members, that said it was help full in one respect.

It opened and expanded the discussion of a very difficult area of e scrap. Ido not condone miss information in any form, however the member corrected the problem quickly when discovered with the help of other members and as, I said expanded the study of a complicated specialty in the e scrap segment.

Most of us enjoy teaching and learning our crafts here that said let's be careful to fully verify our info before posting less we become the you tube of scrap.

I commend that member for wanting to help in a difficult area, his mistake was not intentional but an act of perhaps over exuberance in the desire to be helpful and in a way he was by expanding a discussion. There were some questions asked in that thread I will try to answer to the best of my ability later today or tomorrow.

I fully agree with what you're saying, but, it might be better to table discussion pending further study ?

Maybe mull it over for a week or two in private discussions to build a group consensus ?

Good Idea. how ever I know what each T module is worth, I know what an oz is worth I know what a lb is worth and how many( on avg) it takes to make an oz or a lb should I share that info or, should I first discuss the results of that research with a group private discussion.

I thought everything I read on the internet was TRUE

There are a lot of different things in play. I can't help but feel that it might be better to let it settle for awhile. There's no particular rush to get to it is there ? Maybe get the perspective of time ?

~ JMHO ~

I have 5 drives I keep for backup purposes in case one of the drives in my laptops bites the dust.
Are they new NO
Do they function properly YES
Should I destroy the ones with a bad sector NO
That is why the SMART firmware system was created in the first place.
A Bad sector on ESDI, SCSI, MFM/RLL drives was a real problem but not so much with the new tech drives.
The above is my findings from many years of hands on experience not just something I googled up.

Drives are definitely a touchy area. I'll post up a way to make a testing bench pretty soon- testing them is the only way to know for sure what you have or don't have....