Tag : self-test

Smartctl: Is My Disc Dying?

Posted January 27, 2014 by Bob Hepple & filed under CentOS Comments: 2

Tags: data collection, Offline data collection, SCT, self-test, Suspend Offline

Ive got a 1Tb USB disc that appears to be dying – eg it took about 10 days(!) to run badblocks -nsv /dev/sdc and it only did less than 2% in that time. Read access became _really_ slow.So theres definitely something amiss and Ive got it offline.The..

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