On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> David Purton wrote:
> >>Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does
> >>smartctl say about the health of your drive?
> >>
> >> smartctl -H /dev/sda
>
> try smartctl -A /dev/sda
>
> that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive
>
> the one I always look at first is the absolute value of "raw read
> errors" - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail,
> and its internal code is spending more and more time trying to read
> and re-read data off the media
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 088 088 062 Pre-fail Always - 3342368
Oooo. This was after just one short test.
Looks like I'm shopping for a disk.
I'd like to put a SSD in this machine (it's a netbook). Does anyone have any
recommendations? (Doesn't need to be top of the range)
--
David Purton
dcpurton@marshwiggle.net
For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to
strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
2 Chronicles 16:9a
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