[PLUG] Recommended Disk Test

[Dick Steffens]

On 01/13/2015 01:58 PM, Jim Garrison wrote:
> On 1/13/2015 1:51 PM, Nat Taylor wrote:
>> all those Pre-Fail and Old_ages look suspicious...
>>
> Those designations tell you what that particular statistic is good for.
> OLD_AGE means if the value is approaching the threshold the drive is
> reaching its rated lifetime.  PRE_FAIL means that if the value
> approaches the threshold there could be an imminent failure.
>
> The most important ones are
>
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable
>
> both of which are zero (raw value).
>

Good to know. The drive is fairly old, although not as old as some 
drives in the house (pre SATA). So I will at least think about upgrading.

Thanks for your interpretation of the data.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens