Dan Cowsill wrote:
You could still be looking at a hardware failure situation here.
I have seen hard drives with absolutely perfect SMART attributes pass
all the tests but still show the classic signs of a hard drive
beginning to fail. A significant slowdown is one of those signs.
What I would suggest is that you find some way to observe the hard
drive over a long period of time at considerable load. If there is a
problem, eventually it will show up in the SMART attributes.
It's not an ideal solution, and your problem may not be hardware
failure, but it would be a good idea to rule that out before pursuing
any other diagnostic methodologies.
That's my thoughts. It about has to be hardware at this point. The
other drive on the same cable is doing fine. It's not like I picked the
wrong driver in the kernel, the other drive would be slow to if that was
the case. The drive is pretty old to. Of course, it's not as old as
the others but it is a different brand too.
Thinking about getting a new 1Tb drive. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
