Re: is this hard drive dying?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 2) Can someone please tell me if this hard drive is dying. The following is
> the difference between two smartctl outputs that are a week apart.
>
> 58c58
> <   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   046    Pre-fail  Always
> -       74727
> ---
> >    1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   046    Pre-fail  Always
> -       108562

oh yes, badly -- I've generally found that if the raw_read_error_rate is
anything other than 0, a drive is on its last legs

I expect that you've noticed your machine running increasingly slowly of
late (as it takes larger numbers of attempts before the drive
successfully reads a data block)

Miles Fidelman

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