Hi Felix, Your SMART data looks good to me, except for the hard drive temperature. Experiencing 53°C looks quite a lot to me. Yet, this should not be the cause of your corrupted data.
Two data-corruption problems on the same server which looks independant from each other, and occured at a quite long time range interval from each other, reminds me of a server who caused me lots of trouble until I discovered it had memory defects. I suspected hard disk failure and/or hard drive data corruption, but couldn't nail it with smartctl nor with the badblocks utility. I eventually nailed the problem when doing extensive test with the stress utility, showing that in some runs, the memory was corrupting data (which ended up corrupting data on disk). I had to run the tests many times to spot the defect. Subtle defects are real hard to spot on. IMO, I would advice you to do a full scan of this server to spot where the problem is in order to file this trail of problems as definitively solved. In my situation, similar to your one, the problems occured too distantly from each other to commit resources to investigate thoroughly. This period of uncertaintly and intuitive distrust of the server caused us a hidden costs like stress and fatigue. Having experienced it, if that happened again, I would prefer to rule out this situation quickly instead of knowing it dormant. Here are some links which might be relevant to you : - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Badblocks - https://man.archlinux.org/man/stress.1 - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Stress_testing - https://www.memtest.org/ Best Regards, Pierre.
