[mythtv-users] advice on recording direct to NAS

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Tue May 26 05:29:09 UTC 2015



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf
> Of Will Dormann
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 May 2015 11:36 AM
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] advice on recording direct to NAS
> 
> On 5/25/15 9:45 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> > In my opinion that's a commercial fable! I've been running raid with
> > up to 5 disks in a box for maybe 15 years. And I still have to see my
> > first real failure. But then it's longer ago then that, that I've used
> > seagate. Just watch ventilation and dust.
> 
> 
> 
> Even with 15 years of evidence, that's still just anecdotal.  The folks at
> BackBlaze, however, have worked with a number of drives large enough
> to draw some conclusions.   See
> <https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/> and
> related blog entries.
> 
> Use scheduled SMART self-tests and have smartd configured to email you
> in cases of pending drive failure.   Otherwise, don't be surprised when
> your drive dies.
> 
> 
> 
> -WD
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________

This is the SMART results from the drive in question.

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     SAMSUNG SpinPoint T166
Device Model:     SAMSUNG HD501LJ
Serial Number:    S0MUJ1KQ306834
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0000f0 01b306834
Firmware Version: CR100-13
User Capacity:    500,106,780,160 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 3b
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.5, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Tue May 26 14:54:11 2015 ACST
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:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection:
Disabled.
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:                ( 8852) 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:        ( 151) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003f) 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     0x000f   253   100   051    Pre-fail  Always
-       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   100   100   015    Pre-fail  Always
-       7360
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always
-       2677
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   010    Pre-fail  Always
-       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   253   253   051    Pre-fail  Always
-       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0025   253   253   015    Pre-fail  Offline
-       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       27798
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   253   253   051    Pre-fail  Always
-       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012   253   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always
-       1775
 13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate    0x000e   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       6041
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   074   042   000    Old_age   Always
-       26
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   157   064   000    Old_age   Always
-       27
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       6041
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
197 Total_Pending_Sectors   0x0012   253   253   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   253   253   000    Old_age   Offline
-       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000a   253   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate    0x000a   253   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       0
202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
-       6

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 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever
been run
 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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