[mythtv-users] OT: hard drive failure?
Rick
ve1gn at nb.sympatico.ca
Thu Jan 18 23:58:16 UTC 2007
Sdkovacs wrote:
> I just bought the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 from newegg and installed
> it as my /videos partition. I happened to do a smartctl command on it
> for no particular reason and some numbers that came back jumped out at
> me. Could this drive be failing already? Hardware_ECC_Recovered and
> Raw_Read_Error_Rate and Seek_Error_Rate are continually going up as
> one can see below. Is this something that should concern me?
>
> Also, what is an acceptable operating temperature for a hard drive?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> smartctl -A /dev/hdb
> smartctl version 5.36 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 108 100 006 Pre-fail
> Always - 15144819
> 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 099 000 Pre-fail
> Always - 0
> 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age
> Always - 2
> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail
> Always - 0
> 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail
> Always - 1797798
> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
> Always - 40
> 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail
> Always - 0
> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age
> Always - 3
> 187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
> Always - 0
> 189 Unknown_Attribute 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age
> Always - 0
> 190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 055 055 045 Old_age
> Always - 756678701
> 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 045 045 000 Old_age
> Always - 45 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/26)
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 070 058 000 Old_age
> Always - 42604064
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
> Always - 0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age
> Offline - 0
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age
> Always - 0
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age
> Offline - 0
> 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age
> Always - 0
>
>
>
I've had 4 of those drives in an NAS running since late last summer without problems. They all get similar readings to yours. It was explained on the Infrant forums that smart was just not decoding the values correctly and that there is no problem.
cheers,
Rick
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