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How to check health status of my Verbatim hdd

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How to check health status of my Verbatim hdd

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Hello, I've using (since 7 years or more) a external hard disk "Verbatim Store'n go" of 2000GB. Before I loss my all important data, I would like to check the health status with debian 9.8. How to do this?

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Re: How to check health status of my Verbatim hdd

#2 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

If the data is important - make sure you have a backup.
Period.

"Health Status" is pretty meaningless really.

Having said that, you can check the disk stats with smartctrl.
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health status = it means same as crystal disk info, I want to know if my external hdd is a bad condition (high risk of data's loss)

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If it's only in one place, then you have a high risk of data loss.
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#5 Post by GarryRicketson »

Could have just done a search first, and find the answer to this,. 1 of many good results:
https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-li ... -on-linux/

Also, maybe read this:
Please Read.. What we expect you have already Done.

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Re: How to check health status of my Verbatim hdd

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root@debian:/home/matteo# smartctl -a /dev/sda1
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-8-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               ST2000DL
Product:              003-9VT166
Revision:             CC45
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Logical Unit id:      0x6000c5005c5732f00000000000000000
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Fri Mar  8 07:37:07 2019 CET
SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Current Drive Temperature:     0 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        0 C

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging
root@debian:/home/matteo# 

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#7 Post by User111 »

Can I check some bad cluster if exists? What is the command to do this?

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#8 Post by CwF »

User111 wrote:Can I check some bad cluster if exists? What is the command to do this?
somebody might know, I don't. I've mentioned before I miss the functionality of old school scsi controllers with this built into the bios. I used to check every so often the bad sector counts and reallocations. With adapters I even fixed a few crashed ide drives and could format OUT bad space that would hang OS level tools. OS level would be great I guess, if it worked...

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#9 Post by GarryRicketson »

IF the OP means sectors ,
from:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks
Testing for bad sectors

To test for bad sectors in Linux the program badblocks is typically used. badblocks has several different modes to be able to detect bad sectors.
The details are on the page the link goes to, also maybe :

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man badblocks
garry% man badblocks
BADBLOCKS(8) System Manager's Manual BADBLOCKS(8)

NAME
badblocks - search a device for bad blocks

SYNOPSIS
badblocks [ -svwnfBX ] [ -b block-size ] [ -c blocks_at_once ] [ -e
max_bad_blocks ] [ -d read_delay_factor ] [ -i input_file ] [ -o
output_file ] [ -p num_passes ] [ -t test_pattern ] device [ last-block
] [ first-block ]
WARNING< It is very dangerous to run any command without reading the manual, be sure to read it FIRST
WARNING
Never use the -w option on a device containing an existing file system.
This option erases data! If you want to do write-mode testing on an
existing file system, use the -n option instead. It is slower, but it
will preserve your data.
If you do not have a back up made , learn how to do that first, then you can safely test and work on the drive if it has data on it.

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