[mythtv-users] Seagate 1.5TB for 109.99

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics
<steve at priorityelectronics.com> wrote:
>>Consider that the number might be bogus. I have 2 seagate 750GB that
>>claim many PENDING sectors (which should generate read errors), one of
>>them over 3000...
>>
>>There are no such sectors. I've dd'ed the whole drive and checked via
>>mdadm several times. The SMART response is just wrong.
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>
>
> How do you guys find this info out? I have 2 seagate 750GB drives and am now
> very curious.
> -Steve
>

Install smartmontools

and

use smartctl

fileserv ~ # smartctl --all /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar SE Serial ATA family
Device Model:     WDC WD2500JD-00HBB0
Serial Number:    WD-WCAL73927220
Firmware Version: 08.02D08
User Capacity:    250,059,350,016 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   6
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Thu Mar 26 15:09:04 2009 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x84) Offline data collection activity
                                        was suspended by an
interrupting command from host.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                 (7275) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection
on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  91) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003f) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   200   200   051    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   126   122   021    Pre-fail
Always       -       6208
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   040    Old_age
Always       -       103
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   200   200   051    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   056   056   000    Old_age
Always       -       32573
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   051    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013   100   100   051    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       103
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   105   091   000    Old_age
Always       -       45
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   253   000    Old_age
Always       -       197
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   200   200   051    Pre-fail
Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining
LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     24740         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

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