[mythtv-users] OT: hard drive failure?

Gareth Glaccum gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com
Thu Jan 18 22:18:59 UTC 2007


I would find the numbers a bit concerning, but drives do arrive dead 
sometimes, manufacturers often no longer bother to test every drive. 
However, as one manufacturer tried to tell me recently, the smart data isn't 
necassarily decoded correctly. (I would be dubious about the fact that your 
Min/Max for temp is 0/26, whereas the current temperature is 45).
Make sure you have the latest version of smartctl, and try running some of 
the extended tests on it and see what they report.
Gareth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sdkovacs" <sdkovacs at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:04 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] OT: hard drive failure?


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





[root at localhost ~]# 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       -       1797834
  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       -       42632295
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
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