On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 10:03, Bob Crochelt <rf...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 045 045 000 Old_age Always > - 48690 Assuming the raw value is hours, that's about 5.5 years of power on time. > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 045 037 045 Old_age Always > FAILING_NOW 55 (255 255 60 26 0) > 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 055 063 000 Old_age Always > - 55 (0 19 0 0 0) Assuming the raw value is Celsius, that's somewhat warmer than ideal. I would be looking at the airflow inside the machine and removing any dust. > I think this means its time to replace the hard drive, any other thoughts? That depends on your appetite for risk. I don't see anything else alarming in the data you provided. But, that's because I am accustomed to having several layers of backup available, so I can tolerate a high level of risk. Even when a hard drive is brand new, I make sure to have sufficient backup copies of important data that I can recover whatever is important to me if the drive fails. I have several personal machines and I run my hard drives to failure. For example, the primary hard drive in this machine started failing self test, due to read errors, at around 17000 hours. I did some recovery procedure to remap the problem sectors, and the drive is now at 28000 hours with no further problems.
