[mythtv-users] Recommended Disk Test

Tue Jan 13 22:28:47 UTC 2015

> I have never paid attention to #188. I will look into that. The rest
> of the SMART metrics I use regularly to monitor my drives at work and
> at home.

It appears that around 1/2 of my drives do not support #188 but I did
find one drive to look at:

datastore3 shell-scripts # smartctl --all /dev/sdl
smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976
[x86_64-linux-3.17.7-gentoo-datastore3-build1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000
Device Model:     Hitachi HDS723020BLA642
Serial Number:    MN1240FA0G7WMD
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 36ac67ad1
Firmware Version: MN6OA5Q0
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Tue Jan 13 17:27:26 2015 EST
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:                (19092) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection
on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        No 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:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 319) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control 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     0x002f   100   098   016    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0027   134   100   054    Pre-fail
Always       -       87
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0023   162   100   024    Pre-fail
Always       -       344 (Average 365)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       54
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002f   100   100   067    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0025   138   100   020    Pre-fail
Offline      -       25
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age
Always       -       18539
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   100   100   060    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       54
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033   100   100   097    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
185 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       65535
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       524288
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   067   060   000    Old_age
Always       -       33 (Min/Max 32/37)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       83
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       83
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   181   150   000    Old_age
Always       -       33 (Min/Max 20/40)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

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.