11-27-2017, 01:29 AM
Onamuji wrote:
. . . From your earlier SMART test, it's clear that BOTH the spinning platters and the cache on the controller board had problems. My guess is that these problems have gotten far worse (drives don't magically get better) and you have a very brief period of time remaining to copy your data off before you lose it. The data residing on damaged/bad sectors is probably already unrecoverable.
Thanks for the clarification. I do have my nightly clone through Wednesday, and my TM backup through Friday, plus some files backed up on Dropbox. So should be OK. I have shut down the iMac, and am pondering all the alternatives. I think I'm moving toward a refurb 2014 or 2015 iMac.
/Mr Lynn