Re: [CentOS] smartctl: is my disc dying?

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.