<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/29 Richard Shaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com">hobbes1069@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've been having some quirky issues lately and decided to take a look<br>
at the SMART data for the disk. There seems to be a large count of<br>
errors in some of the categories.<br>
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5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail<br>
Always - 955</blockquote></div><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>
Ian<br>