[mythtv-users] Recommended Disk Test

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dick - your command timeout (#188) value looks pretty bad, and it's 1
> of the 5 metrics which the Backblaze people have found to be relevant
> to predicted drive failures.  FWIW, on both of my Seagates the value
> is zero.

Hmm, it's hard to say what "pretty bad" is.

Here's the distribution of values for 188 from backblaze:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog-smart-stats-2014-8.html#S188R

Note the "G" in the values in the x axis.  Dick' drive is at 66K,
which is way over on the left side of the graph.

Eric