[mythtv-users] Recommended Disk Test
Dick Steffens
dick at dicksteffens.com
Tue Jan 13 21:22:39 UTC 2015
On 01/13/2015 12:28 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> smartctl --all /dev/sda
>
>
> will not do a test but display the current smart. It will be over in a
> second not interfere with a recording. The over PASS / FAIL smart
> status is not a good predictor of failure but looking at the
> individual smart attributes can tell you if the drive appears to be
> operating abnormally.
Doesn't like -all, but does like -a.
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rsteff at ThinkCentre-M58p:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.5.0-18-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
Device Model: ST3320418AS
Serial Number: 6VM97DR5
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 01ed8e39b
Firmware Version: CC66
User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes [320 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Tue Jan 13 13:15:37 2015 PST
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: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
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: ( 625) 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.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 68) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x103f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
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 117 099 006 Pre-fail
Always - 148741208
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 097 097 000 Pre-fail
Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age
Always - 934
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail
Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 084 060 030 Pre-fail
Always - 259660219
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 058 058 000 Old_age
Always - 37456
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail
Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age
Always - 466
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age
Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 098 000 Old_age
Always - 66256
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 065 052 045 Old_age
Always - 35 (Min/Max 31/44)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 035 048 000 Old_age
Always - 35 (0 9 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 048 033 000 Old_age
Always - 148741208
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
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 272674588759705
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 1149999113
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 1092811368
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 Vendor (0x50) Completed without error 00% 0 -
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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And I see I misremembered the size. It's only 320 GB, not 500 GB.
Does this tell you anything significant about the drive?
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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