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Is it possible that an SD card has 100% bad sectors?

I have an SD card which have been used in a photo camera for some months, and it's been working perfectly fine until today. It failed when we were just browsing pictures in the camera screen (so it ...
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How can I detect (and correct) silent data corruption?

My question is, how can I detect silent data corruption at my home PC (Windows + Linux). I do rsync like automatic backups (with version history). But how do I know in a few months/years that a long ...
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Seagate FreeAgent Portable Drive suddenly doesn't want to open

I have a Seagate FreeAgent Portable Drive. It was fine yesterday night when I was using it but this morning when I plugged it in, my computer didn't autoplay it and when I clicked it on the computer, ...