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Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?





On 9/10/25 2:24 PM, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi all,

Am 10.09.2025 um 20:11 schrieb alain williams:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 01:30:47PM -0400, Bruce Halco wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I upgraded to trixie.  Since then I've gotten a number
of messages like
Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors and Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 30 Offline uncorrectable sectors These seem to come within a day or so of a reboot, but it hasn't been long enough to know if that's a
red herring.

I would take this as a serious warning. Time to get the disk replaced in a nice, calm, unrushed manner. The disk is *likely* to hard fail within a year.
Do NOT think "I can leave it 9 months", that 1 year is not an accurate
prediction.

Indeed. I would suggest to check if there's a spare available in the array, and then replace the disk in question with it now.

If there's no RAID or no spare, start the backup now and order a new disk.

      9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   088   088   000    Old_age
       Always       -       85831

represents nearly 10 years if I can still do some basic math.

This disk has deserved to be decommissioned :-)

I agree with that. Based on this (admittedly single data point), I'm impressed enough that I bought a new Toshiba as a replacement.

Cheers,

Arno



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