On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:12:02 -0500,
Michael wrote:
>
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> On Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:54:29 GMT Alan Grimes wrote:
>
> > The other discovery was that my /home drive is a 3.0 tb Toshiba unit
> > from 2014... man time flies!!! =P This means that the thing should
> > probably be replaced due to being old as hell...
>
> I've got disks spinning around for more than 10 years before yours had
> started. One has been showing similar errors for almost half its life.
>
>
> > I'm not going to get too excited about 24 reallocated sectors on a drive
> > this large... Actually I have a drive in my NAS that's going down hill
> > rapidly, I think the power supply to the slot its in is weaker than the
> > others and well...
> >
> > Any thoughts about running a drive this old, and what I should be
> > looking at as a replacement?
>
> I can't advise on a replacement, other than say check if any candidate uses
> Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology and avoid it unless your use
> case
> involves writing rarely, reading often. Conventional drives use
> Perpendicular
> Magnetic Recording and will not suffer from the performance degradation of
> SMRs when written to frequently and extensively.
>
>
> > Root is a 256gb SATA Samsung SSD, no concerns about lifespan on that
> > drive. I hadn't heard of M.2 yet when I bought it...
>
> You'll be able to replace your spinning SATA with an SSD SATA using AHCI over
> the same port. You won't be able to get an M.2 NVMe (M-key socket 3) doing
> its magic without a PCIe 3.0x4 port on your MoBo.
>
> Sadly my hardware is too old and it won't boot using NVMe.
>
>
> > /dev/sdb1 2884152536 955486476 1782136424 35% /home
> >
> > SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
> > Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> > UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
> > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 083 083 016 Pre-fail
> > Always - 262570
> > 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 139 139 054 Pre-fail
> > Offline - 72
> > 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 159 159 024 Pre-fail
> > Always - 405 (Average 316)
> > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
> > Always - 244
> > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail
> > Always - 24
> > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail
> > Always - 0
> > 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 119 119 020 Pre-fail
> > Offline - 35
> > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 093 093 000 Old_age
> > Always - 53677
> > 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail
> > Always - 0
> > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
> > Always - 243
> > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
> > Always - 271
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
> > Always - 271
> > 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 181 181 000 Old_age
> > Always - 33 (Min/Max 14/44)
> > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
> > Always - 27
> > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 029 029 000 Old_age
> > Always - 1456
>
> This value is worth considering further. Start with a backup of your data,
> but do not overwrite your older backups.
>
> Then consider zeroing the defective sectors.
>
> https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/
> Analyzing_a_Faulty_Hard_Disk_using_Smartctl
>
> With 1456 pending sectors you'll be there for a while. Alternatively ditch
> it
> and get a new drive as you intend to do anyway.
Or, get spinwrite and when the beta comes out, which is very soon now,
you may be able to fix your drive!
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