Re: SMART prefailure

2010-12-23 Thread Markku Kolkka
evice: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART > Prefailure Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate changed from 200 to 100 "Prefailure" refers to the type of the attribute, the actual attribute that's changing is the seek error rate. When normalized attribute values go down, it's bad. Use the smart

SMART prefailure

2010-12-23 Thread Steven Stern
I don't know what to make of this. The prefailure rate seems to be going down. Is this good or bad? The system is about 5 years old, so the disk should be nearing the end of its lifetime. Dec 23 10:28:43 mooch smartd[1863]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 7 Seek_Error