Re: Disk failure

Tim Small <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30/04/15 08:28, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote:
> I'm not sure if the disk is about to fail or not. Should I replace it ASAP or?

Any non-readable sectors are a bad sign, but they can also be caused by
external causes such as poor power supply (or power failure during
write), or chassis vibration, so best to eliminate these if possible.

I would backup all data (if you're not using RAID) and get the pending
sectors overwritten (method differs according to whether or not you're
using RAID), then do a SMART long self test.

Tim.

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