On 12/04/2022 02:27, Dale wrote:
The one I aborted was because it was stuck on 10% for well over a day. The whole test doesn't take that long, or shouldn't anyway. I restarted it shortly after that. I might add, the test did take many hours longer than it estimated which from my past experience is quite odd. It's usually pretty accurate. Still, it completed and shows it passed, just has a boo boo on it. I also did a file system check it fixed a couple problems and a bunch of little things I see corrected often on bootup. Something about length of something. Seems trivial.
Given that the firmware SOMETIMES gets its knickers in a twist, especially consumer drives (not sure what yours are?), and read errors are a dime a dozen, I wouldn't worry that much about ONE error.
Do another SMART test after your next reboot. Any NEW errors will be a red flag, but just this one again? Don't worry.
Given the low number and it showing it corrected that error, and then passed a short and long test, is this drive "safe enough" to keep in service? I have backups just in case but just curious what others know from experience. At least this isn't one of those nasty messages that the drive will die within 24 hours. I got one of those ages ago and it didn't miss it by much. A little over 30 hours or so later, it was a door stop. It would spin but it couldn't even be seen by the BIOS. Maybe drives are getting better and SMART is getting better as well.
SMART is a lot better than it was, but remember, it only picks up wear and tear. Mechanical failure is just as deadly, and usually strikes out of the blue. I saw some stats somewhere it's something like 1/3, 2/3 wear and tear picked up by SMART, and mechanical failure undetectable by smart. Can't remember which stat was which.
Thoughts. Replace as soon as drive arrives or wait and see?
If you get a couple of errors, then no more for months, the drive is probably fine. If you get new errors every time you test, ditch it ASAP.
Either way, make sure it's backed up! Cheers, Wol
