Sunday evening, I was in the data center. Hagrid had a failed 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
Monday, shone on me (smartctl -d ata -a \/dev\/sda<\/tt>):
\n=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
\nSMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
\nDrive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
\nSee vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.<\/tt><\/p>\n
Again, 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’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
In case anyone’s looking for a good reference to S.M.A.R.T. error messages, the Wikipedia entry on S.M.A.R.T.<\/a> is pretty good.<\/p>\n Technorati Tags: raid1<\/a>, s.m.a.r.t.<\/a>, failing disks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday evening, I was in the data center. Hagrid had a failed sda 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-b8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}