50+ Hard Drives

Posted by packetmad as Linux, OS

I’ve used more than 50 hard drives in my home IT projects over the years and I’ve never had one start to fail. Keep in mind, these are commodity, off-the-shelf, drives. Meant for laptops, not the continual usage they see here.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had them get loud. Loud to the point I have replaced them to maintain sanity but I’ve never had one report bad sectors… Until now.

I guess I’ve been lucky.

I’ve been having some reliability issues with my firewall and I think I’ve finally traced it down to the hard drive heading south for the winter.

It’s been a rock solid drive. I really like the Barracudas from Seagate. Enough that I will replace this one with another I have sitting in storage.

1111 days + 22 hours run-time is nothing to sneeze at for a PATA drive.

S.M.A.R.T. log:

Drive 0 (/dev/hda):
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family
Device Model: ST3120022A
Serial Number: 3JS31735
Firmware Version: 3.54
User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is: Wed Oct 14 15:01:01 2009 CDT
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: (0×82) 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: ( 430) 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: (0×0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0×01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 85) minutes.

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 057 054 006 Pre-fail Always – 110843279
3 Spin_Up_Time 0×0003 097 095 000 Pre-fail Always – 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0×0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always – 56
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0×0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always – 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 087 060 030 Pre-fail Always – 628105282
9 Power_On_Hours 0×0032 070 070 000 Old_age Always – 26687
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0×0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always – 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0×0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always – 957
194 Temperature_Celsius 0×0022 032 057 000 Old_age Always – 32
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 057 054 000 Old_age Always – 110843279
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0×0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0×0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline – 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 190 000 Old_age Always – 27
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0×0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline – 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0×0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always – 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 27 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It “wraps” after 49.710 days.

Error 27 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 26686 hours (1111 days + 22 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.