[mythtv-users] Needs second opinion, is my HD failing?

[Ian Clark]

2009/1/29 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>

> I've been having some quirky issues lately and decided to take a look
> at the SMART data for the disk. There seems to be a large count of
> errors in some of the categories.
>
[snip]

>
>  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail
> Always       -       955


I'd keep half an eye on this value. My root drive for my server started to
list reallocated sectors, it stuck around the 10-20 mark for a year or 2 but
then one day it started climbing fast, I noticed it as weird pauses when you
tried to do something.

I managed to recover the contents of the drive, but it was definitely about
to die. Luckily I had another drive on hand from when one of my drives
appeared to be failing, but wasn't in the end.

Cheers,

Ian
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