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The scariest number on my hard drive means nothing

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A read error rate of 218 million, and why the drive is perfectly healthy.

smartctl reports Raw_Read_Error_Rate of 218,766,136 on a four-day-old drive. That looks like a disk about to die. It is not, and working out why taught me how to read a SMART table properly.

The column everyone reads is the wrong one

Pre-fail versus old-age