Re: [opensuse] SMART daemon question

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On Thursday, 2008-10-30 at 19:58 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

Also the disk is continuously having minute read errors when reading, and
correcting them. This is expected and normal. Only when this error rate goes
up consistently you have to worry.

Read or write errors are *NOT* normal.

Yes, they are. Magnetization is so small that signals are near the noise level; they use error correction code to yield clean safe data. This is different that sector error.


- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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