[CentOS] smartctl: is my disc dying?
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Jan 27 15:59:24 UTC 2014
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Bob Hepple wrote:
> I've got a 1Tb USB disc that appears to be dying - eg it took about
> 10 days (!) to run 'badblocks -nsv /dev/sdc' and it only did less
> than 2% in that time. Read access became _really_ slow.
>
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 192 192 000 Old_age Always
> - 1423
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 196 196 000 Old_age Offline
> - 700
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 001 001 000 Old_age Offline
> - 793265
These numbers are all bad, really bad. Regardless of the overall
PASSED result, SMART is telling you that the disk is failing. See,
e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
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Paul Heinlein
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