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Naive
Asked: 2017-12-22 22:40:23 +0800 CST

What does "Disk is OK, one attribute failed in the past" mean?

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I have installed new Seagate hard disk to my old system and installed Ubuntu 14.04. I checked disk status using gksudo gnome-disks and resulted in Disk is OK, one attribute failed in the past. I did not get any proper links for this message. Can someone tell what does it mean ?

14.04

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    From here it says:

    You're reading the SMART data. Disk is ok means no bad sectors. One issue in the past is usually an overtemp and it's no big deal.

    So run sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX, where X is your device letter which I think should be a, so that would be /dev/sda. Look through that to see if any issues had occurred that is worth noting, but I doubt.

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  2. Worth checking the listings in the SMART Data & Self-Tests (Disks or Disk Utility software) for the 'Power-On Hours' just to be sure it is new. I was once sent a supposedly new drive that had already clocked up a couple of months.

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