Question about SMART
Paolo Galtieri
pgaltieri at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 16:33:46 UTC 2011
I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives. These are portable drives
that get their power through USB. Both these drives are about 1 year
old. Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may
be going bad. The reason is too many bad sectors. One drive is
formatted as it originally came, i.e NTFS the other was reformatted as
Ext4. I have checked both drives using Seagate's tools (in non
destructive mode) as well as checking the NTFS one in Windows 7. No
problems where reported. The question is should I really believe what
SMART is telling me or is it just stupid :-)
There are no disk errors reported or any other issues that might
indicate the drive is going bad.
Any thoughts/comments are appreciated.
Paolo
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