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    I would consider it a bad disk.   I consider the internal self-test
    of any drive to trump any secondary test.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25-Jun.-2022 10:38 a.m., Alex wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi all, 
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        <div>I hoped I could reply to my question from some time ago
          with more info. Here is a link to the output from smartctl for
          two drives I think are failing. Would someone help me confirm?</div>
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        <div>The first one doesn't have all that many hours on it.</div>
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              <div class="gmail-de1" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;white-space:pre-wrap">Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
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              <div class="gmail-de1" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"># 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       80%     25420         556876652</div>
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        <div>I've also tried to run badblocks on the area around that
          bad sector, and it's succeeded.</div>
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              <div class="gmail-de1" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 8px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;white-space:pre-wrap">Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Black
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        <div>Any ideas greatly appreciated.</div>
        <div>Thanks,<br>
          Alex</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 5:29
          PM Alex <<a href="mailto:mysqlstudent@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">mysqlstudent@gmail.com</a>>
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          <div dir="ltr">Hi,
            <div>I have an older WD1502FAEX 1.5TB disk that fails a
              smartctl short and long test at virtually the same place
              on the disk with a read error. However, running badblocks
              over the same place on the disk where smartctl fails has
              no problem, even after multiple read/write passes.</div>
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            <div>Which test do I believe? Is this a reliable disk?</div>
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            <div>If they're just read errors, isn't there some mechanism
              to relocate those bad sectors or just mark them as
              unusable and move on?</div>
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            <div>This disk is being tested on another system or I
              otherwise would have provided more actual output here.
              Please let me know if there's something specific I can
              provide to help determine how I should proceed.</div>
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