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Re: Sata Hard drive testing

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Have a look at "smartctl". It will print some info about the drive and
can also "test" your drive known as S.M.A.R.T-test.

First of all i would have a look what "smartctl -a /dev/sdX" will say.

Am 18.10.21 um 18:25 schrieb Thomas Anderson:
> Hello Gurus,
> 
> I have been having problems with a drive (non-SSD) for a while now, but
> I would like to "identify" the problem specifically, so that I may
> perhaps be able to get the drive replaced.
> 
> Essentially, I have been experienced data loss, where nodes become
> unreadable, when I try to "fix it" with fdisk, it says it moves
> unreadable to the trash, basically deleting data.
> 
> I have tried reformatting the drive, writing zeros to it, and then
> temporarily the drive looks fine; but it's not! it's as if the drive is
> some how decaying: where it looks good, but then when you go to use it,
> the data later becomes unreadable.
> 
> Is there any kind of test I can execute on this drive to show it needs
> to be replaced??
> 
> Thanks!
> 

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Sata Hard drive testing Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2021-10-18 18:40 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-10-18 18:50 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-10-18 19:10 +0200
    Re: Sata Hard drive testing Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2021-10-18 19:30 +0200
    Re: Sata Hard drive testing Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2021-10-21 01:50 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-21 02:40 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-21 03:20 +0200
        Re: Sata Hard drive testing Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 10:40 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-21 04:40 +0200
        Re: Sata Hard drive testing piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-21 16:30 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-10-21 07:50 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-10-21 14:40 +0200
        Re: Sata Hard drive testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-21 15:00 +0200
          Re: Sata Hard drive testing David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 15:10 +0200
            Re: Sata Hard drive testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-21 16:30 +0200
            Re: Sata Hard drive testing Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 18:10 +0200
              Re: Sata Hard drive testing Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2021-10-24 17:00 +0200
          Re: Sata Hard drive testing Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 15:10 +0200
            Re: Sata Hard drive testing Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 15:20 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> - 2021-10-18 19:50 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-18 20:40 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-10-18 21:30 +0200

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