If it's under warranty you can return it because it's clicking. You just
have to be "persuasive"...

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 20:16 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Adam Carter wrote:
> > See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV
> > to sda etc each time)
> >
> > smartctl -a /dev/$DRV | egrep
> >
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
>
>
> It's currently running the test on most of these.  The sdd drive is the
> new one.  The sdc drive is the same model but a couple years old, which
> is why I bought this one since the last one was working fine.  The sda/b
> drives are WD of different sizes.  sda has the OS on it and I think it
> is the black type.  Sdb is a small backup drive that I copy things like
> family photos and such too.  Yea, I also have DVD backups that are not
> here at the house.  Here is the output:
>
>
> root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdd  | egrep
>
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail
> Always       -       0
> 188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0 0 0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       0
> root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc | egrep
>
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail
> Always       -       0
> 188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0 0 0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       0
> root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdb | egrep
>
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail
> Always       -       0
> 188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       0
> root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sda | egrep
>
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail
> Always       -       0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age
> Offline      -       0
> root@fireball / #
>
>
>
> That looks OK to me BUT it is currently running the test.  What I may do
> is redo the file system and copy a new set of backups over to it.  Sort
> of give it a bit of a workout and see if that spots anything.  I bet as
> it is, they won't let me return it or anything.  It is working, just
> making that noise.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>

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