Re: Sata Hard drive testing

[basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de>]

Have a look at "smartctl". It will print some info about the drive and
can also "test" your drive known as S.M.A.R.T-test.

First of all i would have a look what "smartctl -a /dev/sdX" will say.

Am 18.10.21 um 18:25 schrieb Thomas Anderson:
> Hello Gurus,
> 
> I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, but
> I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may
> perhaps be able to get the drive replaced.
> 
> Essentially, I have been experienced data loss, where nodes become
> unreadable, when I try to "fix it" with fdisk, it says it moves
> unreadable to the trash, basically deleting data.
> 
> I have tried reformatting the drive, writing zeros to it, and then
> temporarily the drive looks fine; but it's not! it's as if the drive is
> some how decaying: where it looks good, but then when you go to use it,
> the data later becomes unreadable.
> 
> Is there any kind of test I can execute on this drive to show it needs
> to be replaced??
> 
> Thanks!
>