yes, smartctl should give you more a lot more information. I would be curious to see what smartctl reports. On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:34 PM Alan McKay <alan [ dot ] mckay [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > > Well looks like I got lucky with which one I took out first - the behavior > went away > > They are Kingston drives and it looks like their drive check tools only > run on Windows so I can't use those. > > Any recommendations for Linux tools to check the drives? > > I guess I start with the standard SMART tools > >