Re: impending disk failure?
Dominique Dumont wrote:
On Saturday 17 October 2015 14:15:52 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
Can anyone please explain what it means, and whether I should be worried?
You should check the drive with smartctl.
See http://www.smartmontools.org/
HTH
Yes.. and be sure to go beyond the basic tests.
First off, make sure it's running:
smartctl -s on -A /dev/disk0 ;for each drive, and using the
appropriate /dev/..
Then after, it's accumulated some stats:
smartctl -A /dev/disk0
For a lot of drives, the first line - raw read errors, can be very telling - anything other than 0, and your disk is failing.
Start-up-time can be telling, if it's increasing.
The thing is, that most drives, except those designed for use in RAID arrays, mask impending disk failures, by re-reading blocks multiple
times - they often get the data eventually, but your machine keeps getting slower and slower.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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