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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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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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Was my HDD with failed SMART really repaired?
In brief: I want to know if an HDD with failed SMART can be repaired by any means, and if so, is it still reliable enough.
In details: I have a 4 years old 1TB Western Digital HDD (WD10JPVX-08JC3T6) ...
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Strange data corruption on HDD after switching from Windows to Linux
After I have replaced Windows 10 (the laptop has been in use for some time witout any issues) with Kubuntu Cosmic (ext4 over lvm, kernel 4.18.0-16-generic) on a laptop, I have started experiencing a ...
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HDD SMART test shows read error; should I toss the disk or scan for bad blocks?
After triggering SMART test (long) using smartctl, I have the following smartctl -a output:
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-142-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce ...
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How to interpret S.M.A.R.T and Badblocks results
I have bought a used SSHD ( Seagate Laptop SSHD - ST500LM000-1EJ162 ) on ebay. Regarding to S.M.A.R.T the disk might be damaged somehow, I am not sure. To correctly interpret the S.M.A.R.T values, I ...
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ZFS scrub finds checksum errors, but badblocks and smartctl do not
I have configured a ZFS pool with two drives as a mirror. The operating system is Ubuntu 16.04 and I have been using the zfs 0.6.5 as packaged by the vendor. The drives are 3T WD Green and 3T WD Red (...
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How to test SSDs or NVMe for badblocks'?
With the traditional spinning disks diagnostics is rather easy. If you suspect a drive to be faulty, you can check the SMART values, run a SMART extended test and a badblocks -wsv test. If all three ...
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Badblocks and fsck say HDD is clean but Linux marks it as read-only
I'm relatively new to Linux so I'm not sure why this is happening.
I have this one drive that Linux always marks it as read-only partition. At first I thought it was just the OS so I did a clean ...
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SMART: Is my HDD about to get bad sectors and corrupted data?
I am running gsmartcontrol in Linux.
I ran an extended SMART test. The Health Self-Assessment test returned a value of 'PASSED'. However I am concerned about the possibility of any bad sectors and ...
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Can data patterns on HDD cause corruption?
I am really baffled that one of my movie files doesn't seem to like Samsung HDDs and I was wondering if certain data patterns can cause or at least favor data corruption over time.
It first started ...
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Does having some Bad Sectors indicate that the drive will crash soon?
I have a Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62 320Gb 7200RPM HDD. I checked the SMART status and there are 3 bad sectors, totaling 1.5MB. This means that approximately 0.00046875% of my hard drive has gone bad.
Is ...
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HDD Current_Pending_Sector attribute going up and down
I have Western Digital Caviar Black drive (model WD2002FAEX-007BA0).
System is running Linux Mint 14. Filesystem on drive ext4.
Recently I've got some i/o errors on one of the files. Then I've ...
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Trying to remove/diagnose single Current_Pending_Sector in S.M.A.R.T. data
I'm in a process of doing a fresh Linux install and before I went to do that I thought that it is a good time to verify HDD health since I can safely overwrite any data on the HDD if needed.
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Hard disk failure is imminent [duplicate]
I have a seagate 320 GB hdd on my linux machine. From a week, SMART utility has been warning me to backup as the disk failure is imminent.
Report failed on the "Bad sectors attribute" which is
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