On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:44:32 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi My 1.5 TB WD HDD has 384 bad sectors according to "fsck.ext4 -cvf > /dev/x" Is this bad? Since last year October the HDD has been very slow > to browse the folders. Mmm... hard to tell :-? Run "smartctl" (long test mode) and send the report to the list. Greetings, -- Camaleón