Hi,
About a month ago I installed a second hard drive into my 10.04 desktop, and whilst there's nothing overtly wrong with it (e.g., it seems to mount ok), looking at the SMART data from Disk Utility it warns me about a few bad sectors.
Specifically a Reallocated Sector Count (1 sector) and a Current Pending Sector Count (13 sectors).
In addition, the self-tests I can run in the disk utility gui (short, extended and conveyance) all report "FAILED (Read)" and benchmarking crashes after a couple minutes with an input/output error. Since I installed the drive both this and the original drive also run a bit hotter in the chassis, which is sort of expected since this is an enclosed space with no cooling on the HDDs directly but this is a surprisingly large jump (the original went from idling at ~35 to 40C, the new drive idles at 45 which is a bit warm for comfort), which I just thought I'd mention in case its also a bad sign.
I really want to try and get to the bottom of this to see if this disk is dying young or something else so I'm wondering if there's anything else I can use to check the health of the drive? I know there's things like fsck for checking file systems but would that also cover the general health of the drive?
Cheers!
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