Thomas Anderson composed on 2021-10-18 18:25 (UTC+0200):
> I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, but
> I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may
> perhaps be able to get the drive replaced.
> Essentially, I have been experienced data loss, where nodes become
> unreadable, when I try to "fix it" with fdisk, it says it moves
> unreadable to the trash, basically deleting data.
> I have tried reformatting the drive, writing zeros to it, and then
> temporarily the drive looks fine; but it's not! it's as if the drive is
> some how decaying: where it looks good, but then when you go to use it,
> the data later becomes unreadable.
> Is there any kind of test I can execute on this drive to show it needs
> to be replaced??
>
>
man smartctl
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