Checked the health of your SSD or HDD recently?
by beachboy2 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55ARA)
One way to test the health of your drives is to use GSmartControl:
Code:sudo apt install gsmartcontrolhttps://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/home/
Short and extended self-tests are available, with the output either being viewed or saved.
Unfortunately, even SSDs with a clean bill of health can fail suddenly without warning.
Why SSDs die a sudden death:
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/01/w...-deal-with-it/
It is essential to prepare for such an eventuality by having all personal data etc backed up.
However, even that may not be enough to fully restore the personal data, depending on the particular software employed and the type of backup used, as can be seen here:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...failure-38296/
Code:sudo apt install gsmartcontrolhttps://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/home/
Short and extended self-tests are available, with the output either being viewed or saved.
Unfortunately, even SSDs with a clean bill of health can fail suddenly without warning.
Why SSDs die a sudden death:
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/01/w...-deal-with-it/
It is essential to prepare for such an eventuality by having all personal data etc backed up.
However, even that may not be enough to fully restore the personal data, depending on the particular software employed and the type of backup used, as can be seen here:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...failure-38296/