Is disk really bad if mkfs.ext4 -c -c reports errors?

[W Scott Lockwood III]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> > The only reliable way to tell if a disk is dying is to read its SMART
> info.
> >
> Which says it's OK, but it doesn't appear to be OK
>

Except of course, when this doesn't work at all, which is FAR too common. I
just lost a pair of 2TB Seagate drives this way. SMART errors reported: 0.
But the drives were paperweights.


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W. Scott Lockwood III
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