To a large extent, the question depends on whether "bad" means that the operating system has marked it as such, or whether the drive's firmware con...

As I am not sure about the behaviour in one setting the following cases apply: SSD There is no fixed mapping between the sector(s) that you are try...

Short answer: yes, it is good idea to fill the drive with zeroes or random numbers before selling, giving away or re-purposing. Advice: Even bett...

The old school answer would be "yes, that is how you tell drive firmware to remap the sector and replace it with a good spare sector". The even old...

For an SSD, the linux command blkdiscard can tell the disk to drop it's complete contents. This is a good, secure way of wiping a SSD that doesn...

So what you are asking is if the drive has a bad sector, and you attempt to write random junk to it, what happens with the bad sector? Well, it wou...