[CentOS] smartctl: is my disc dying?

Mon Jan 27 15:59:24 UTC 2014
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

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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