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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