On Thursday, December 23, 2021 05:30:32 PM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > You can review SMART attributes which keep track of device's health and > metrics. > This utility is part of "smartmontools" package. > Run this one-liner to see values of relevant attributes: > $ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep -E '5 Realloc|183 Runtime|197 > Current|199 UDMA'
I'm not the OP, and not very familiar with smartmon / smartctl, but I ran the recommended command on the two disks in my oldest system, and the results are posted below. (Aside: at some point, in the near future, I'll read the relevant manpage to better understand that output.) I also see the advice from Dave Christensen on additional tests to run and will try those in the near future, ideally next week. /dev/sda is an SSD (which hold my system and doesn't get much writing), /dev/sdb is an HDD (which holds my "user data"). Should I be worried? root@s19:~# smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep -E '5 Realloc|183 Runtime|197 > Current|199 UDMA' > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 root@s19:~# smartctl -A /dev/sdb | grep -E '5 Realloc|183 Runtime|197 Current|199 UDMA' 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12 root@s19:~#