Have a look at "smartctl". It will print some info about the drive and can also "test" your drive known as S.M.A.R.T-test.
First of all i would have a look what "smartctl -a /dev/sdX" will say. Am 18.10.21 um 18:25 schrieb Thomas Anderson: > Hello Gurus, > > 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?? > > Thanks! >
