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Should I be worried? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

            
              Back up your data now
Reseat the cables for the drive
Run a self test on the drive - smartctl -t long - if it doesn't pass, then the drive is trash. If it does, then it might limp along a bit longer before catastrophically failing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I used the GUI program for SMART and the list of issues got marked as "old age", all of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They meant the SMART self-test, not SMART data readout. Those are not meant to be interpreted by laymen and often not even experts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I did perform the self-test function, the long version that says it will take 10s of minutes. Some of the errors were displayed with red text before the test. After the self test, it said that my drive passed and all the red errors showed up as "Old age" in black text, every single one.

(This is in the GUI app for smartctl)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Please stop trying to interpret the SMART data report. Even if you're knowledgeable it can easily mislead you because this is vendor-specific data that follows no standard and is frequently misinterpreted by even the program displaying the data.

If the self-test passed, it's likely the cable or the controller. Try a different cable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Iirc old age is the best it can be