Hey, I've set up a linux NAS and I'd like to get daily reports for the HDD health, I'm running a S.M.A.R.T test using smartmontools (https://www.smartmontools.org/) and I'm wondering about a few things...
I was testing just some old 500GB HDD which I won't be using, but it was the perfect thing for my testing, I first checked the disk using crystal disk info, it showed the status as 'good', with most things as 'ok'.
I then tested the same hard drive using smartmontools, there is a short and long test, the short test passed successfully, but the long test failed on the same LBA consistently, I've searched about it and according to most results 'this hard drive is dead and should be replaced'. I then came across this:
https://deadc0de.re/articles/unreadable-sectors.html
I followed the steps there, and after fixing that I ran the long smartmontools test again and it then passed successfully, so I'm extremely confused now.....Is the hard drive ok to use in such case? Since I'll be relying on the smartmontools test, in my point of view, if it passes that means everything is ok, obviously reading each section value is also important to see if something degraded etc, but I'm wondering if this is a good enough way to monitor that?
Thanks.
I was testing just some old 500GB HDD which I won't be using, but it was the perfect thing for my testing, I first checked the disk using crystal disk info, it showed the status as 'good', with most things as 'ok'.
I then tested the same hard drive using smartmontools, there is a short and long test, the short test passed successfully, but the long test failed on the same LBA consistently, I've searched about it and according to most results 'this hard drive is dead and should be replaced'. I then came across this:
https://deadc0de.re/articles/unreadable-sectors.html
I followed the steps there, and after fixing that I ran the long smartmontools test again and it then passed successfully, so I'm extremely confused now.....Is the hard drive ok to use in such case? Since I'll be relying on the smartmontools test, in my point of view, if it passes that means everything is ok, obviously reading each section value is also important to see if something degraded etc, but I'm wondering if this is a good enough way to monitor that?
Thanks.