Re: HD dying?

[email protected] Thu, 6 Apr 2017 10:29:17 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'll second "Carlos E. R."'s verdict. I see nothing wrong either. However,
that does not guarantee there isn't something wrong. Somewhere I read a
study that said SMART only predicts about 60% of hard drive failures. The
other 40% give no warning.

Backups are always a good idea. They protect not only against hard drive
failures, but also accidental or malicious data loss. Now have you tested
those backups? I remember when I was free-lance going to a brand new
client (first visit). They needed me to do a restore. OK, got their backup
media (it was back in the zip disk days). Every disk was write-protected,
and blank. Needless to say, that day didn't go well.

> Hello,
> First of all, I *have* been backing up my data.
> I'm going to post LOTS of details here, fell free to skim.
>
> My problem is that once upon a time my drived failed < 6 months after I
> bought my laptop. Sending it to a professional did not help, nor did
> replacing the PCB, it was dead.
> The symptoms leading up to the event was a sudden freeze of the OS. I was
> not too bright about Linux at the time, so I thought that perhaps X froze.
> Now I'm getting the identical thing, a sudden freeze. I can ping the
> kernel, I cannot restore the frame buffer, sync, or umount the
> file systems. My syslog metalog records no messages during this period,
> it is set to sync the dmesg messages. I cannot ssh, but I can uses sysreq
> to reboot. I'm using OpenRC.
>
> This has happened twice or three times.
> I just ran a self test and it says PASSED, I'm not seeing anything that
> stands out.
>
> smartmontools-6.4
> Gentoo Linux 4.9.x
>
> Below is my S.M.A.R.T. data. BTW: it is unwrapped.
> What do you think?
> Thanks, David
>
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family:     Western Digital Blue Mobile
> Device Model:     WDC WD7500BPVX-22JC3T0
> Serial Number:    WD-WXC1A14E1823
> LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 209f3d675
> Firmware Version: 01.01A01
> User Capacity:    750,156,374,016 bytes [750 GB]
> Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
> Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
> Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
> SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
> Local Time is:    Tue Apr  4 14:47:54 2017 UTC
> 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:  (0x00)	Offline data collection activity
> 					was never started.
> 					Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
> 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: 		(13920) seconds.
> Offline data collection
> capabilities: 			 (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
> 					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
> 					Suspend Offline collection upon new
> 					command.
> 					Offline surface scan supported.
> 					Self-test supported.
> 					Conveyance Self-test supported.
> 					Selective Self-test supported.
> SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
> 					power-saving mode.
> 					Supports SMART auto save timer.
> Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
> 					General Purpose Logging supported.
> Short self-test routine
> recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
> Extended self-test routine
> recommended polling time: 	 ( 157) minutes.
> Conveyance self-test routine
> recommended polling time: 	 (   5) minutes.
> SCT capabilities: 	       (0x7035)	SCT Status supported.
> 					SCT Feature Control supported.
> 					SCT Data Table supported.
>
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED
> WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always
>     -       0
>   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   196   179   021    Pre-fail  Always
>     -       1166
>   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   058   058   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       42367
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always
>     -       0
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       0
>   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   082   082   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       13532
>  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       0
>  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       0
>  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       1695
> 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       124
> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       158
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   183   183   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       51774
> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   107   091   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       40
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline
>     -       0
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always
>     -       0
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline
>     -       0
>
> SMART Error Log Version: 1
> No Errors Logged
>
> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining
> LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
> # 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     13529
>   -
> # 2  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     12288
>   -
> # 3  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      9247
>   -
> # 4  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      7609
>   -
> # 5  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      5469
>   -
> # 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         0
>   -
> # 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         0
>   -
>
> SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
>  SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
>     1        0        0  Not_testing
>     2        0        0  Not_testing
>     3        0        0  Not_testing
>     4        0        0  Not_testing
>     5        0        0  Not_testing
> Selective self-test flags (0x0):
>   After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
> If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute
> delay.
>
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