Questions tagged [bad-blocks]
A bad block (or sector) is essentially a block that returns an error rather than the data up on reading it.
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Which hard disk is reporting bad blocks? [duplicate]
System: Dell Precision 3660 tower with primary drive 512 GB SSD and two 4TB HDD drives configured in Intel software RAID 1.
ONLY on reboot, the system dumps about 30 identical error messages into the ...
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Breaking down e2fsck
Is e2fsck -cc equivalent to badblocks -nsv -o badblocks.txt; e2fsck -L badblocks.txt?
If so, could I potentially speed up the testing by getting badblocks to do a destructive read-write test? Like ...
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Is my HDD failing?
I tried to resize a partition of my 3-year-old HDD using gparted, but it failed and displayed a message saying that there were bad blocks and that was a sign of physical damage to the drive.
I used ...
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Do I have a bad SSD? Bad block count at 257
I have Adata su650 480GB SSD which is generally working fine. Recent check of SMART values using CrystalDiskInfo reports 257 bad block count. Now I need to know a few things with respect to this ...
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Check for previously found badblocks on a drive without re-running all of badblocks?
I ran badblocks on a couple of drives for 48 hours. One drive had lots of badblocks whereas the other was clean. I then physically took out the drives from the computer and accidentally mixed them up. ...
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Finding files on a RAID5 ext4 filesystem associated to bad blocks on one HDD
I am running a NAS with Openmediavault 5 and I have set up a RAID5 (with mdadm) with 3x 5TB WD Red harddisks back in the day (see details below for mdadm output). I am using the whole disk as member ...
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Reallocated sector count & Secure Erase
I have a retired HDD with a high "Reallocated Sector Count" (maybe greater a thousand, if I remember correctly). Today, I performed a ATA Secure Erase via hdparm, and after that, this count ...
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Why was my microSD card fixed after formatting?
I'm sure that they were not file system errors: reading it at the block level (pv /dev/sdb > /dev/null) gave a really low 1.4 MB/s and then at some point it stopped with "input/output" ...
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solid state disk some random files corrupted; how to prevent in simple terms
Please see What happens in a raid (5) when one drive or more gets a bad sector?. I have a few .jpg files (and much more serious data). Some of the .jpg files become corrupted. I can tell because ...
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Does the information about bad sectors provided by S.M.A.R.T. and badblocks survive formatting? [closed]
I have read many questions and answers on SuperUser, ServerFault, and other websites about this topic, but I am still a little bit confused about S.M.A.R.T. and badblocks.
I saw that S.M.A.R.T. stores ...
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Is this HDD damaged?
I bought a 3.5-inch Toshiba HDWQ140 server class (N300) 4 TB drive on Amazon. I followed instructions to put it into service as the primary storage disk in my 6-year-old TiVo Bolt DVR.
I succeeded in ...
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To seperate one badblocks test on entire drive to multiple tests, Is that good idea to create temp partitions and test on them?
I would like to run badblocks on one entire hard drive (8TB). For example:
$ sudo badblocks -wsv /dev/sdb
But, this will take days to complete. For some reasons, I can not leave the test PC on for ...
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Is `badblocks` meaningful on compact flash cards?
I own ten (10) compact flash cards. The cards are industrial high quality ones. Because of some random system crashes I checked all 10 cards using badblocks:
sudo badblocks -w -s -o badblocks-card1....
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re-use of hdd which was wiped, but can not accessed for any further use
I have an HDD which was wiped (not by myself).Maybe a program named killdisk was used. I want to re-use the HDD, but it seems to be "really deleted". I don't want any old data from the hdd.
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What Runtime_Bad_Block mean in SMART Attributes? How critical is it?
My SSD has the following SMART Attribute Pre-fail.
What does that mean and how critical is it?
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0013 098 001 010 Pre-fail Always In_the_past 60
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