Re: [smartmontools-support] Which attributes can estimate number of bad blocks?

[Gandalf C. <gan...@gm...>]

Il 28 lug 2016 4:36 PM, <ro...@sp...> ha scritto:
>
> Current Pending Sector can indicate one of 3 things [on platter drives]:
>
CUT

> As for trashing a drive, it varies depending on who you ask, but at 5+
> (raw value) reallocated, I trash. At 8+ Pending, I trash.
>
> In regards to 187 and 197, I will retire a drive with any raw value more
> than 0. But this is based more on Backblaze's published results than my
> own observations. Usually I don't see those, or the drive is already
> failing based on Reallocated and Pending.

side question:  what about "Elements in grown defect list" with SAS drives?
Will you trash when this values is different from 0?
It should indicate the number of bad sectors, like "reallocated sector
count" (smart #5) for SATA drives