How to know that the HDD will soon fail?

Question

linux

How can you find out by standard means in linux that the disk will die soon?

Answer 1

Actually, not at all.
The disk may break tomorrow due to marriage. And on the other hand, I have been swearing at one of the smart torrent disks for 6 years already (they say the disk died, what is it doing here at all?) And at least henna is pumping and distributing the disk.
Smart can be trusted after a year or two after the start of using the disk. The only thing that makes sense is to always look at reallocated and bad blocks, because they talk about possible data corruption (but, again, a disk with a reallocated heap could "self-repair" and continue to work for centuries).

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Check the /dev/sda device and output the results to the badblocks_sda.list file:
# sudo badblocks -sv /dev/sda > ~/badblocks_sda.list
If there are more than a few badblocks, then you need to think about changing the disk.

Answer 4

How can you find out by standard means in linux that the disk will die soon?

No way. We need seers who are forbidden by the principle of causality. SMART is just current and statistical data. He will not give a guarantee: according to smart, everything can be ok, and the disk will break the next day.
I'm lucky

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