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The Natural Philosopher   wrote:
>On 01/02/2021 18:28, Mike wrote:
>> Now, go and learn about "smartmon tools" and "smartctl" just to check
>> that the new drive isn't*actually*  dying!:)
>
>+10001!!!

:)

You learn these things two ways.

Other people's near misses and disasters, or your own.

smartmon + RAID has saved my backside more than once when "Pending Sectors"
have become "Uncorrectable Sectors" and in one case "Drive? What Drive?"

smartmon (without RAID) has flagged up problems with a disk with loss of two
(2) files, both easily recovered from a backup after cloning the failing
disk (as a first, fastest-recovery strategy).

smartmon, however, has been utterly unable to prevent or warn about
SD cards in a R-Pi dying without warning (once) or Pi USB memory sticks
(twice) because that's not in its remit :(

So, back to the backups it is.

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