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 > > :-) :-) > > >