I just ran smartctl on my 2 drives, sda and sdb, with the following results. Could someone please interpret these results and tell me if there is cause for worry. *sda* SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 130073028 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 1006 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 076 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 4341556312 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 12166 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 933 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 094 000 Old_age Always - 3228 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 072 053 045 Old_age Always - 28 (Min/Max 17/29) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 028 047 000 Old_age Always - 28 (0 10 0 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 042 027 000 Old_age Always - 130073028 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 5553392728641 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2804485771 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 33088652 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged *sdb* SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 112 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 45408425 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 863 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 067 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 17202052028 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 11380 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 863 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 099 000 Old_age Always - 2 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 072 052 045 Old_age Always - 28 (Min/Max 18/29) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 028 048 000 Old_age Always - 28 (0 11 0 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 031 017 000 Old_age Always - 45408425 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 106661217842669 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1596433859 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 280736335 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged Thanks in advance. BTW, both drives are Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA 3 and are 2 years old. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.3 & kernel 3.16.1-7 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org