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Is my hard drive failing?

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Mar 15, 202651640 views
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Problem

I'm beginning to worry about my ~3yr old WD Green drive. In the last few days i've noticed that my media player is acting weird, it won't move to the next track after a song has finished and also won't play new songs when I double click. So, I downloaded the "smartmontools" package and used "sudo s…

Error Output

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORS…

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Fix for: Is my hard drive failing?

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If you read the column headers, you'd see that pre-fail is the type of statistic that's collected not the status. The When_Failed column being empty should also give you some hints about whether or not anything has failed (nothing has). When in doub…

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