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01-25-2022, 07:23 PM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Austin, Texas
Distribution: Feather, Darn Small Linux
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Smart Data
Astounded to find the HDD in my laptop is 10 years old. It's a Seagate Momentus 7200 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive ST9750420AS
Smart Data Indicates:
Read Error Rate Pre-Fail OK
Spinup Time Pre-Fail OK
Reallocated Sector Count Pre-Fail OK
Seek Error Rate Pre-Fail OK
Spinup Retry Count Pre-Fail OK
Everything Else is Old-Age OK
/home is 689 GB containing 192.231 GB (Thats after a lot of house cleaning)
I plan on backing up /home to a new Western Digital Black external HDD tonight. I use Timeshift to backup / to a thumb drive.
I will continue running the Seagate to see how long it will last.
How do I interpret the fields Attribute, Value, Normalized, Threshold, Worst.
Will Smart Data - Self Tests issue a notice of likely failure?
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01-27-2022, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by borgward
How do I interpret the fields Attribute, Value, Normalized, Threshold, Worst.
Will Smart Data - Self Tests issue a notice of likely failure?
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Apart from POH (Power On Hours) a lot of these are relative - as in the value that a given model, manufacturer, etc considers to be 'acceptable' or 'unacceptable' varies from device to device (so it isn't just enough to say 'all should be 0 everywhere' or 'all should be 100 everywhere' - that doesn't make sense). If it's passing 'OK' it isn't tripping any of its pre-failure or failure sensors, so its OK. Standard advice to maintain backups always applies - the failure of a single storage device should be weighed as time-to-recover not 'will all of my data be gone forever in a flash.'
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01-29-2022, 07:01 AM
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Registered: Dec 2013
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Originally Posted by borgward
How do I interpret the fields Attribute, Value, Normalized, Threshold, Worst.
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I highly recommend gsmartcontrol for this - because of the detailed tooltips you get.
But I also use "normal" smartctl for launching tests etc.
Some notes.
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