How worried should I be?
Acronis shows current pending sector count as 40 and status as Degradation but no other obvious errors.
No Reallocated Sector Count.
The disc is a 500GB SATA hard drive.
As far as I can recall this was the one I cloned when fitting a new
Sandisk SSD as the system drive, so there should really be no activity on
it.
Health is shown as 60%
I don't think that there is anything of value left on there.
Will check if I've belt and braces backup anywhere.
I could just leave it, run an error check on it, or do a full reformat
after backing up all the data.
What does the team think?
Dave R
How worried should I be?
On 26 Feb 2023 at 13:57:51 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:
How worried should I be?
I'd retire it with prejudice.
Cheers - Jaimie
In article <k616qvFle8kU4@mid.individual.net>, David wrote...
How worried should I be?
Acronis shows current pending sector count as 40 and status as
Degradation but no other obvious errors.
No Reallocated Sector Count.
The disc is a 500GB SATA hard drive.
As far as I can recall this was the one I cloned when fitting a new
Sandisk SSD as the system drive, so there should really be no activity
on it.
Health is shown as 60%
I don't think that there is anything of value left on there.
Will check if I've belt and braces backup anywhere.
I could just leave it, run an error check on it, or do a full reformat
after backing up all the data.
What does the team think?
Dave R
I used Acronis Drive Monitor for a few years (I use HD Sentinel now).
60% is a very low score, and the disk should be retired ASAP. As I understand it, disks are supplied with a certain amount of hidden spare capacity which is used to re-map the occasional (inevitable) failing
sector. The SMART metrics only show up when that spare capacity is used
up, and the rot is spreading into the declared space. Junk it!
On 27/02/2023 in message <k63ev5Fcdk1U1@mid.individual.net> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 26 Feb 2023 at 13:57:51 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:
How worried should I be?
I'd retire it with prejudice.
Cheers - Jaimie
Or a lump hammer?
On 26 Feb 2023 at 13:57:51 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:
How worried should I be?
I'd retire it with prejudice.
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On 26 Feb 2023 at 13:57:51 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:
How worried should I be?
I'd retire it with prejudice.
I'd just demote it to some use case where I don't care if it dies.
Sometimes you just need a disc and can easily form a plan B if it stops working. Like using it to hold a spare copy of Windows you can boot up in case of trouble, or to experiment with Linux distros, or to copy files between machines. Or even just as the Nth cold backup of something (odds
are that one of your N elderly drives will still work).
As long as it's never holding the only copy of data you care about, there
are still productive uses for it.
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On 26 Feb 2023 at 13:57:51 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:
How worried should I be?
I'd retire it with prejudice.
I'd just demote it to some use case where I don't care if it dies.
Sometimes you just need a disc and can easily form a plan B if it stops working. Like using it to hold a spare copy of Windows you can boot up in case of trouble, or to experiment with Linux distros, or to copy files between machines. Or even just as the Nth cold backup of something (odds
are that one of your N elderly drives will still work).
As long as it's never holding the only copy of data you care about, there
are still productive uses for it.
On 27 Feb 2023 at 19:53:26 GMT, Theo wrote:
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On 26 Feb 2023 at 13:57:51 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:
How worried should I be?
I'd retire it with prejudice.
I'd just demote it to some use case where I don't care if it dies. Sometimes you just need a disc and can easily form a plan B if it stops working. Like using it to hold a spare copy of Windows you can boot up in case of trouble, or to experiment with Linux distros, or to copy files between machines. Or even just as the Nth cold backup of something (odds are that one of your N elderly drives will still work).
As long as it's never holding the only copy of data you care about, there are still productive uses for it.
OOI, do you run a utility to check suspect drives - and if so, which?
RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
On 27 Feb 2023 at 19:53:26 GMT, Theo wrote:
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On 26 Feb 2023 at 13:57:51 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote: >>>>
How worried should I be?
I'd retire it with prejudice.
I'd just demote it to some use case where I don't care if it dies.
Sometimes you just need a disc and can easily form a plan B if it stops
working. Like using it to hold a spare copy of Windows you can boot up in >>> case of trouble, or to experiment with Linux distros, or to copy files
between machines. Or even just as the Nth cold backup of something (odds >>> are that one of your N elderly drives will still work).
As long as it's never holding the only copy of data you care about, there >>> are still productive uses for it.
OOI, do you run a utility to check suspect drives - and if so, which?
On Linux, I just do a complete fill with zeroes (which can take hours or
days depending on the drive size):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=10M status=progress
and then look in dmesg to see if there were any complaints from the SATA driver:
dmesg | grep sdX
If the disc wrote every sector successfully without the kernel reporting errors, it's in reasonable enough shape. It may have caused some sector reallocations (I would check the numbers with smartctl before and after),
but if it wrote successfully they're likely not egregious.
If the write throws up a lot of errors, or takes a surprisingly long time
(eg single digits MB/s rather than the ~100MB/s I'd expect), I'd bin the drive.
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