I don't know what to make of this. The prefailure rate seems to be going down. Is this good or bad? The system is about 5 years old, so the disk should be nearing the end of its lifetime. Dec 23 10:28:43 mooch smartd[1863]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate changed from 200 to 100 -- -- Steve