On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:33:46 -0700, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. It might help to see the smartctl output. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
