On 23/09/14 00:08, David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Basil Chupin wrote:
I just ran smartctl on my 2 drives, sda and sdb, with the following results. Could someone please interpret these results and tell me if there is cause for worry. As these are Seagates ...
*sda*
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 130073028 This seems to be normal for those drives. [pruned]
sdb might have a mechanical/mounting problem, manifested in those high seek errors... It might be as easy to fix as to loosen the screws, realign the disk horizontally/vertically, and retighten the screws ;) Have an eye on that value, but don't mind yet.
But: I've had one newer 3T Seagate (not of Samsung descent, I think) those disks recently, with similar SMART-values jump from such as above to >12k bad sectors (realloced / pending / uncorrectable) overnight. Several 1.5T disks (same age as yours) developed just a few sectors (e.g. 6), nothing dramatic, most Windows users will never notice stuff like that ;) I've had a Laptop to switch out the drive, and it had >1k realloced sectors and the user never noticed (but probably some files may be damaged, but migration went fine, so it hopefully just were some system-files ...
Thanks for the comments, David. See my previous response to Carlos where I mention that the response I got from Seagate Support indicates that I have nothing to worry about but they do suggest that I run their SeaTools to confirm the S.M.A.R.T. results. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.1 & kernel 3.16.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org