Re: interpreting smartmontools output

Jochen Schulz wrote: Johan Grönqvist: I read about smartmontools on "debian package a day", and tried it out. Running "smartctl -A /dev/sda" on my recent laptop (bought it this spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. You are misreading the output. The words "pre-fail" and "old

Re: interpreting smartmontools output

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Re: interpreting smartmontools output

Johan Grönqvist: > > I read about smartmontools on "debian package a day", and tried it out. > Running "smartctl -A /dev/sda" on my recent laptop (bought it this > spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. You are misreading the output. The words "pre-fail" and "old_age" are just d

interpreting smartmontools output

Hi, I read about smartmontools on "debian package a day", and tried it out. Running "smartctl -A /dev/sda" on my recent laptop (bought it this spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. On a two-year old machine, that would worry me, but my instincts are now instead to mistrust sm