Re: Disk failure

"Jørn Dahl-Stamnes" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday, April 30, 2015, Tim Small wrote:
> 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.

BTW, did a new smartctl -a on the device and got this lines:


SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%      5529         673565131




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Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
homepage: http://www.dahl-stamnes.net/dahls/

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