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On 08/20/2013 10:37 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:16:32AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> I occasionally get the following message from smartd: >> >> Offline uncorrectable sectors detected: >> /dev/sdc [SAT] - 48 Time(s) >> 1 offline uncorrectable sectors detected >> >> >> smartctl -H reports >> ** sdc : SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED >> >> This is my backup drive so it is not critical to my operation. > What, really? > > Doesn't it suddenly become critical once whatever it is backing > up fails? > Certainly. but a minor error like this is not a serious flaw since the sector has already been remapped. This is a case where it is reporting that 1 sector is bad. If this were an increasing number I would certainly replace the drive. So, if my backup drive failed, I would certainly replace it, but not immediately. If one of my primary drives in my RAID reported errors, I would replace it ASAP. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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