> Most of the time, Gnome Disk Utility and motherboard RAID systems are > showing a disk as "officially not OK anymore" around something like 500 > reallocated sectors (which is already very big). > But SMART "Normalized", "Worst", "Threshold" values are quite > complicated to understand (it may be some easy way to translate them > into something clear?) so I don't know what is the official "failure" value. > > I don't know how many reserved sectors for reallocation are existing on > most drives, but there is some bits of information here about spare > sectors area size: > https://www.passmark.com/forum/general/4257-detrmining-the-size-of-the-sector-spare-area > It seems that you can calculate and see how many sectors aren't > available for data, so that most of them are probably the "spare sectors > pool". > > Anyway, after more than 1800+ reallocated sectors, by experience, it's > time to thank your disk one last time, to turn it off, and to let him go > to hard disk's heaven! The drive is living its really last hours, it may > die during the night. We'll see. For some reason it's not currently climbing, but I guess it's just night and it's not doing much. Zabbix is still complaining, but hell, it might even be interesting :) PS: As I mentioned, it's not my box. I just help out when something bad happens etc, such as a sudden drop to 200kB/s on one drive in the RAID (we sorted that out and added some monitoring to zabbix for that as well - it's in another thread in here). roy (going to bed) -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- Hið góða skaltu í stein höggva, hið illa í snjó rita.
