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A lot of errors on ext4, however smart doesn't show any errors

I have a Debian box with additional ( it is not a system disk ) 1.5Tb sata hdd (wd caviar green). There is only one partition on the whole disk. Disk is used for backups from remote system (with ...
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How to fix hard-disk error connected by usb?

My system is Linux 64bit, my hard-disk is a 1TB WD HD, connected to my computer by USB3.0. I found some files cannot be copied, they are video files, and it seems I can play the video. I ran e2fsck ...
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manufacturer's tool found bad blocks, but smartctl doesn't show any

Description of my problem is quite large, so first I will give a short summary, then I will precisely describe the situation. Short summary: manufacturer's diagnostic tools found and repaired some ...
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smartctl: suspend read-scan the remainder of the disk

I have started read-scan the disk using: smartctl -t select,10-11 -t afterselect,on -t pending,45 /dev/sda It seems, however, it kills the disk performance. I had expected that the read-scan would ...
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How can I prevent smartd from reporting that it cannot find a disk?

I have smartd monitoring my hard drives. It works fine generally, but the following error window has been consistently popping up every 24 hours. This email was generated by the smartd daemon running ...
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smartctl retest bad sectors

I got a notification today that my drive was going to fail in 24 hours. The 'Reallocated_Sector_Ct' was already around 3000 and it has since risen to over the last few hours 4004. However, I turn my ...