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Thread: Brand New Receiver with 4 Bad Blocks - Should I be worried? Does it need to go back?

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    Brand New Receiver with 4 Bad Blocks - Should I be worried? Does it need to go back?

    Hello All,

    as above.
    Just reflashed my box and on the screen I got the message 4 bad blocks - not critical. This box is barely a week old?

    Is this right? Should it go back? Need to understand what the bad blocks are and the impact on the ET8550 itself.

    Thanks,

    James.

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    Nothing to worry about.


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    Vu+ Ultimo 4K with 3TB HDD, Dual FBC (Sat) tuners, 1x Twin Hybrid DVB-C/T/T2 tuner
    Vu+ Solo 4K with 1TB HDD, Dual FBC (Sat) tuners, 1x Hybrid DVB-C/T/T2 tuner
    Vu+ Solo 2 with 1TB HDD 'White Edition', 2x DVB-S2 tuners
    Mut@nt HD2400 with 1TB HDD, 4x DVB-S2 tuners
    Fixed 28.2E Technomate 65cm Mesh Satellite Dish with Inverto Unicable II/JESS LNB and Inverto Unicable Splitter
    Fixed 28.2E Sky Zone 1 45cm Satellite Dish with Octo LNB
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    Its only a problem if it starts changing!
    Not something you should be worried, concerned, emotional about
    Its normal, or has been on all my receivers - I think the highest was 16
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    Gigablue Quad 4K & UE 4K
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    All flash memory has bad blocks but as pointed out its nothing to worry about unless that number starts to increase. My solo2 has had 4 bad blocks for some thing line three years.

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