SMART prefailure

[Markku Kolkka]

23.12.2010 18:43, Steven Stern kirjoitti:
> 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

"Prefailure" refers to the type of the attribute, the actual attribute
that's changing is the seek error rate. When normalized attribute values 
go down, it's bad. Use the smartctl program to run a full self-test of 
the drive.

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     Markku Kolkka
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