Il giorno dom 11 set 2022 alle ore 12:08 Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > What sort of error? A new disk *may* be overkill ... It's a smart error, saying the sector at LBA can't be read, during the scheduled long smart test. > Then look at the smartd output and ask yourself "do I really need a new > disk?". I wouldn't send the new one back. Depending on how well you are > off for disk space and SATA ports, now you've got the new disk, if the > old one is still good I'd go for a 3-disk raid-5 plus spare. That's my > current setup. A new (better) disk, an SSD, would cost 150 euros. Better safe than sorry, so usually I change disks as soon as I get a read error. (also, this disk is around 50k hours.....)
