{"id":690,"date":"2008-01-07T21:18:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T02:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/07\/how-to-spoil-your-day"},"modified":"2008-01-07T21:19:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T02:19:41","slug":"how-to-spoil-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/07\/how-to-spoil-your-day","title":{"rendered":"How to spoil your day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday evening, I was in the data center. Hagrid had a failed <tt>sda<\/tt> in the RAID array, since post-Christmas (when I was on vacation), and I was going to replace it. Thanks to RAID1, it still kept humming along. Its almost impossible to find 120GB disks any longer, so I thought it would be time to upgrade to 2*500GB.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, shone on me (<tt>smartctl -d ata -a \/dev\/sda<\/tt>):<tt><br \/>\n=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===<br \/>\nSMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!<br \/>\nDrive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.<br \/>\nSee vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>Again, <tt>sda<\/tt> was at it. A brand new, honking, 500GB SATA2 disk, failing. Power supply? Fubared motherboard? Now my thoughts of buying a Macbook or whatever new-fangled device Apple launches on January 15 at MacWorld, is clearly gone down the drain. I&#8217;m guessing a new server is in order. Well, at least it will be 64-bit, and every bit capable of running Xen.<\/p>\n<p>In case anyone&#8217;s looking for a good reference to S.M.A.R.T. error messages, the Wikipedia entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S.M.A.R.T\">S.M.A.R.T.<\/a> is pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/raid1\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">raid1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/s.m.a.r.t.\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">s.m.a.r.t.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/failing%20disks\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">failing disks<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20How%20to%20spoil%20your%20day&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F07%2Fhow-to-spoil-your-day&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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