It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Unnombrepls on 2024-08-20 17:01:33.

So I had an issue when decompressing a file in which it took 10 hours to do it while the same file in a different HDD took 20 minutes.

I am checking the first disk using Victoria and so far it seems there is a region with read/write rates 10-20x slower than the rest (10% of the disk is so far at 200-800 ms).

I assume that is the cause of my issue. Nevertheless, those sectors are still in the "green" category for Victoria. How can I mark them as bad? Also, what would happen to files that are currently allocated there? will they be moved elsewhere?