On 2013-10-18 11:43 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Do a smartctl -A /dev/sd[abcd] - look for non-zero raw read errors > and reallocated sector counts.
And Current_Pending_Sector ! > I've found, at least for the WD drives I use in my servers - > anything other than a 0 raw-read-error count is a sign of > near-term disk failure. This is highly manufacturer dependent. In my experience, with Seagate drives, it's normal to have Raw_Read_Error_Rate in the tens or hundreds of millions. > Note that this particularly applies if you're not using an > enterprise-class drive. Standard drives try very hard to read from > the medium, and take a long time before they give up. Enterprise > drives assume they're part of a RAID array and just give up, > throwing an error. Really ? Interesting, didn't know that. -- André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> lists.debian.org, a spammer's favourite. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131018173155.ga6...@aym.net2.nerim.net
