Re: Is there a test suite for Pi2/armv7 ?

On 16/07/2024 01:57, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 21 Jun 2024 09:08:06 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

There's no standard like SMART for them
the SD card controller to report stats back over the card interface.

SMART isn’t much use, anyway. I test my storage devices for actual I/O
errors.

By the time any type of storage device is reporting errors during actual
use, it's already in a really bad way, and should have been replaced.

Both spinning discs and flash media are over provisioned with a number
of spare sectors/blocks which they will silently map in, either over
sectors which have started giving read errors, or any flash blocks which
have reached their write limits and could be unreliable.

The SMART information on the drive will tell you when this happens, long
before the OS finds the disc has started to be come corrupted. Use this
as the first warning to replace the disc before data loss or complete
failure.

---druck