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Well when I read "old" and "pre-fail", doesn't it mean that the<br>
threshold value have been exceeded and so the disk has some issues??<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, you can take a look at the "raw" values (which are usually counters) to find out if there are issues. The important attributes, which indicate a failing drive, are all OK on your Toshiba drive.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
If not, such messages are confusing<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To the human eye maybe, but the SMART table is (at best guess) supposed to be read and parsed by a machine or script.</div><div>I highly recommend the Wikipedia page on SMART, it's a great read (even for advanced users) and explains a lot.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T</a>.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">cheers,</div><div class="gmail_quote">ck<br></div></div>