maliciousonion@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 15 days agoShould I be worried?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down15
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minus-squareRegalPotoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·15 days ago 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
minus-squaremaliciousonion@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoI used the GUI program for SMART and the list of issues got marked as “old age”, all of them.
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 failingI used the GUI program for SMART and the list of issues got marked as “old age”, all of them.
Iirc old age is the best it can be