Re: Need second opinion, is my HD failing?

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Richard Shaw wrote:

I've been having some quirky issues lately and decided to take a
look at the SMART data for the disk. There seems to be a large
count of errors in some of the categories.

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data
Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes
with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST
THRESH TYPE UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate
0x000f   087   086   006    Pre-fail Always       -
13453278

Maybe.

3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   095   094   000    Pre-fail Always       -       0 4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100
100   020    Old_age Always       -       45 5
Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail Always       -       955

It has to be about out of spare sectors, I haven't ever seen one
that high. This is your wake up call I believe.

That's a good result, not bad; those number count downwards.. that's
why the threshold is lower than the current or worst value.

See the manual page for smartctl for more information on interpreting
the output of the tool:

"Each Attribute also has a Threshold value (whose range is  0  to
255)  which  is printed under the heading "THRESH".  If the Nor-
malized value is less than or equal to the Threshold value, then
the  Attribute  is  said  to have failed.  If the Attribute is a
pre-failure Attribute, then disk failure is imminent."