Well, there it goes, thank you for your service WD 500GB SATA HDD after 8 years of service, a bit over 6y 9m of power on hours..
Quietly died, didn't hear much of grinding or anything, it just suddenly stopped detecting reliably on many SATA boards. Can't get it to detect on a USB-SATA adapter or my 6-series board. Was sort of detecting and dying on my ICH10 which was what it was installed on prior to removal.
I didn't notice when it died as it was part of a 4+1 RAID (Linux MDRAID) array, Linux silently failover to the hot spare without intervention. Except I still need to make sure the system will boot...
There were no SMART errors that I could see during the "purgatory time" but now does not respond to SMART.
Wonder if it's worth trying to resurrect for a short period of time to wipe it... probably not. Smashing it probably is easier. Then again if it's just something minor wrong with it...
Quietly died, didn't hear much of grinding or anything, it just suddenly stopped detecting reliably on many SATA boards. Can't get it to detect on a USB-SATA adapter or my 6-series board. Was sort of detecting and dying on my ICH10 which was what it was installed on prior to removal.
I didn't notice when it died as it was part of a 4+1 RAID (Linux MDRAID) array, Linux silently failover to the hot spare without intervention. Except I still need to make sure the system will boot...
There were no SMART errors that I could see during the "purgatory time" but now does not respond to SMART.
Wonder if it's worth trying to resurrect for a short period of time to wipe it... probably not. Smashing it probably is easier. Then again if it's just something minor wrong with it...
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