8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
11:29 p.m.
Timothy Pearson wrote:
You said you ran smartctrl which found "some errors", but you didn't say
how many or how serious. Most hard drives will be expected to develop
bad blocks over time: they're normally found by the drive and mapped
away to never be used again.
Have you done an fsck on the file system?
I always install two hard drives in desktops and use software RAID-1 for
redundancy in case of a failed drive. RAID is not just for servers :)
--
Steven
On Saturday 08
October 2011 19:41:56 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
In my experience if the drive is going to die completely it will do so
without much warning. The bad sectors you are experiencing are more like
a cancer (dying R/W heads, bad disk surface, one or more head crashes in
the past, etc.) and will continue to spread. The less you use the disk
the better, as each write access will likely corrupt more sectors. Well, looks like the harddrive. Get a drive now,
your's could fail any
second.
I have one on order!
Lisi