Confusing smartd messages

[Lev Serebryakov]

On 05.07.2018 17:44, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> It JUST means that some sectors are unreadable which may be a reason
> that at some some write got wrong because of hardware problem.But this
> problem may be - and possibly were - powerdown while writing, or power
> spike.
 Maybe, our experiences are different because all my computers with
spinning media are always powered by good UPSes. And they never ever
encounter "powerdown while writing" :-) So, for me single write error is
sure indication of degrading HDD. Sometimes I was able to get free
exchange on this basis, if guarantee is not expired yet, BTW.

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// Lev Serebryakov