How many [thousand] hours on the drive? I think you're gambling if you
have more than 26,000 hours (3 years) and ESPECIALLY if it's really a
Hitachi drive. Seagate bought Hitachi recently, and from what I've
seen, are selling used Hitachi drives as "new" Seagate drives - check
the model number and the run hours!
Hard drives are killing me this year - I've spent over 80 hours in
rework because of failed drives - especially with Seatachi drives (see
above). 80 hours of rework at no pay is a painful lesson.
Regards,
George Toft
On 9/11/2014 4:06 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Greetings!
I have a 500GB Seagate ST3500312CS SATA drive salvaged from a decommissioned
DVR. The DVR's OS said SMART status OK. The latest Seatools disk utility from
the Seagate website says the drive is A-OK (short test, long test, full erase,
re-test) no errors found.
However, the Gnome disk utility in Mint 17 says 'Threshold not exceeded' and
'Disk is OK, 178 bad sectors'.
Some other SMART attributes displayed:
ID1 Read Error Rate: 152141757
ID5 Reallocated Sector Count: 178 sectors
ID187 Reported Uncorrectable Errors: 0 sectors
ID198 Uncorrectable Sector Count: 0 sectors
ID199 UDMA CRC Error Rate: 0
GSmart Control 0.8.7 is reading the same thing, 178 sectors, but also says it's
OK.
running an e2fsck from gparted reports 0 bad blocks.
I've also retested in another machine with different cables to minimize the
possibility of bogus hardware or BIOS issues, but the results remain the same.
Seagate's website has a FAQ that says their tools should be the final say as
they're designed to work correctly with their drives.
Normally a bad sector or two wouldn't bother me, I have drives that have been
running for years like that. I just keep backups fresh and check for bad sector
growth. A few bad sectors is within spec and that's why HDD's have a reserved
area. Yet somehow 178 sectors seems like a lot.
Should I trust this drive for anything more than a paperweight?
Should I trust anything with the words 'smart', 'affordable', or 'free' in the
name? ;]
Thanks!
--Kenn
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