Billy Holmes ha scritto: > Quoting "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly have >> troubles in understanding the smartctl outputs (googled of course, but > > while I think the seek time metric is mostly informational and not > really indicative of harddrive failure, my experience was different and > I'll explain why. > > * my harddrive made strange noises at times. > * it's seek time metric kept getting lower > > So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that you have to take all this > data in context.
Thanks. My latest errors are: Nov 20 06:52:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 247 to 246 Nov 20 09:52:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 246 to 245 Nov 20 11:22:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 245 to 248 Nov 20 12:22:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 248 to 247 Nov 20 15:22:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 247 to 246 Nov 20 19:22:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 246 to 245 Nov 20 20:22:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 252 to 253 Nov 20 22:22:31 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 245 to 247 Nov 20 22:52:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 247 to 248 so the Seek_Time_Performarce is kinda oscillating. I could buy another one and replace, but I fear early mortality. So, what should I do (apart from frequent backups)? Use this one as main until its errors becomes more serious and use the new one with non-essential data stuff to see if it works? By the way, a dd if=/old/disk of=/new/disk is enough to transfer the whole thing, isn't it? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
