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Part 86: Thanks to Zabbix, a possible early warning about a dying HDD

By whatsuphome | 10:47 PM EEST, Wed August 07, 2024
What's up, home? part 86 cover image -- an exploding hard drive

The following is a story about partially black monitoring with many missing details due reasons told later in this post, but is also a story about how a single hint on your dashboard can sometimes be your best friend.


Last year my Raspberry Pi 4 SD card started to tell me it should be retired. Some I/O errors, and more than that, suddenly the I/O request times started to be up to 10,000-20,000 milliseconds.

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