Oh my god they're playing LA BASTRANGUE at the DENTIST

La bastringue lmao not bastrangue

I'm so BORED it's not my turn yet
I've got hard drives to TEST

Here we go, smartctl -t long /dev/sda
I wish there was some sort of progress bar so I'd know what's going on
There probably is actually, I'm gonna stop it and find the flag I need to turn on

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.
Testing has begun.
Please wait 109 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Sun Dec 27 20:06:19 2020 PST
Use smartctl -X to abort test.

Never mind! It knew I'd be impatient and has started in the background
I guess I only have two hours to wait

# 1 Extended offline Self-test routine in progress 90% 23710 -

yeehaw 10% already

I'm testing one of my backup drives now that I know how to test a drive lol
Luckily no signs of failure so far with -a

Back to my server HDD:
# 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 23710 225724648

that can't be good

Other drives:
* Backup drive with my photos in perfect health
* Unused drive 1 ("Gerty") also in perfect health
* About to test Unused drive 2 ("Hal") now

Hal has some errors unfortuately (Raw_Read_Error_Rate 9, Reallocated_Sector_Ct 1, Current_Pending_Sector 8, Offline_Uncorrectable 8, Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 9)
Gonna run a short test

According to the short test Hal is fine but idk if I can trust the short test
I think I'm going to make a note of the above errors for Hal and Not use it for my server
I have one more to test, the backup drive for my server that's currently plugged in
I think... I think SATA is hot-unpluggable right

wait I'm being silly, I can test it from inside the server lmao

uh oh those read/seek error rates don't look good
I'm gonna run a short test then if needed a long one

So it seems that Reallocated_Sector_Ct and Current_Pending_Sector are the important ones and since Hal's aren't nonzero I'm gonna go ahead and say that Hal shouldn't be used
For the server's backup disk it may have read and seek errors but it has neither of those two so I'm gonna say it's fine for now (and because I'm too lazy to replace it)
Meanwhile the long test for the server's main disk failed so I'm gonna go ahead and say that definitely needs to be replaced lol

I'm gonna give the other two drives names so I remember what they are lol
The one that holds my photos backups is Orion and the one that holds my server backups is Monty
I will not be using Hal
I think I'll replace my current server disk with Gerty, keep using Monty for my server backups, and keep using Gerty for my photo backups
Eventually I'm going to move my photo backups to my server (probably this week, since I'm doing all of this anyway), which will free up Orion
tbh I'm not sure if Gerty and Monty are the best choices for the server vs Orion

so this is Gerty: Western Digital Caviar Blue Serial ATA, WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSA0
and this is Orion: Western Digital Caviar Blue (SATA), WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0
and this is Monty: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus, ST3160827AS
the failing server disk is: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF), ST1000DM003-1CH16
I'm not really sure if Seagate or Western Digital have reputations

h a r d d r i v e

I've got one more hard drive to test that's in my desktop but the desktop is currently in a room I cannot yet access

I found some specs pages ooo
Gerty: https://www.cnet.com/products/wd-blue-wd1600aajs-hard-drive-160-gb-sata-300-series/
Orion: https://www.cnet.com/products/wd-blue-wd6400aaks-hard-drive-640-gb-sata-300-series/
Monty: https://www.cnet.com/products/seagate-barracuda-7200-7/
server: https://www.cnet.com/products/seagate-desktop-hdd-st1000dm003-hard-drive-1-tb-sata-6gb-s-st1000dm00325blk/
Looks like the one currently in the server has the best specs (unfortunately), followed by Orion, then Gerty, then Monty

boy these things sure are expensive

ok I'm gonna stop shopping. I have hard drives I can use I don't need to buy one

I finally got my last hard drive (Victor)
None of the big bad fatal errors, but it has some numbers for Raw_Read_Error_Rate and Seek_Error_Rate
I'm getting the feeling that they don't mean anything really

Victor is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, ST3320418AS: https://www.cnet.com/products/seagate-barracuda-7200-12-320gb-sata-300/
I'm still unsure if I want to use Victor or Orion (Gerty and Monty are both 160 GB and those sizes maybe aren't very future-proof even if my current server doesn't use all that much)

also a linky linky for what those errors really mean: http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/Seagate_SER_RRER_HEC.html

Ok here's the plan:
* I write a blog post about what I've discovered so far, including various stats about my hard drives
* I then stick Orion in my server as the main disk (since it's bigger than Victor) with Victor as the backup (since it's bigger than Gerty or Monty)
* I take the failing drive out (Sasha) and put it in my current desktop, and install a GUI for the Ubuntu Server that's currently on there, because I want to see how long I can keep using it before it really really fails (I probably won't need to use that desktop for any Coq things since I'll have my laptop)
* I move my photos backup to the server so that I can access them remotely, and I'll back up my photos by plugging my phone physically into the server
* I'll then have three copies of all my data (and a partial copy of my photos, if you count my old SD card)
* Gerty and Monty will be retired for being old and small (Hal is still dead)
I think that's it

https://ionathan.ch/thulium/2020/12/28/thulium-failure.html
I couldn't resist because the inspiration struck lol, here's a draft of the post
Something I forgot to mention both here and on the post is that I'm going to run a long test with smartctl on Orion (and maybe Victor) first just to take make sure those disks are healthy so I can push further disk failures as far into the future as possible

I should also set up monitoring disk health with smartctl somehow, but I don't have an email server so I can't send myself updates anyway lol I'd still have to manually check

I am currently running smartctl and it says it will be done in 74 minutes so I have an hour to do something else

"aborted by host" no??? I did not abort???

I installed gnome-disk-utility but I cannot figure out how to open it