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SMART test failed

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steakman1971

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I swear I'm a magnet for disk problems. First, my Drobo craps out on me. I lost some data, spent a lot of time recovering the data I could. Finally get things back in order using Ubuntu and SnapRAID.

Tonight, my BIOS told me one of the drives failed its SMART tests. Crap. Using the smartctl tool, this is my output:
Code: 
chris@minty:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdi|grep 'test result'
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
chris@minty:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdi
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-36-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda LP
Device Model:     ST32000542AS
Serial Number:    5XW1XJCR
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 02ea73e8f
Firmware Version: CC95
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is:    Thu Jan 15 21:52:45 2015 EST
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: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity
                                        was completed without error.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
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:                (  623) 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:        (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x103f) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   105   099   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       9379031
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   096   096   020    Old_age   Always       -       4449
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   027   027   036    Pre-fail  Always   FAILING_NOW 3010
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   075   060   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       37040243
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   063   063   000    Old_age   Always       -       32556
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       105
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   076   059   045    Old_age   Always       -       24 (Min/Max 23/24)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   024   041   000    Old_age   Always       -       24 (0 14 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   019   019   000    Old_age   Always       -       9379031
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       55306293903330
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       2473439735
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       3182492551

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


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.
I'm going to pull any data off of it, make a trip to Microcenter and get a 3 TB WD Red drive to replace it. At least I'll be getting a little more space out of the deal...
That drive has been in used for maybe 2 years or so in my Drobo. It's had some use so I guess I can't gripe too much.
 
The drive has 3010 reallocated sectors in its 3.71 years of usage (32556 power on hours). I my experience with a few hundred drives this is bad or that I have only had 1 drive out of dozens that had this many reallocations work for more than a few days.

You can try a 4 pass badblocks however I suspect the drive to report that it can not read back a few dozen sectors on each pass.
 
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I'd highly recommend you to get the Toshiba DT01ACA-series instead but it's up to you.
As for you current drive, Start_Stop_Count is very high (some kind of sleep function enabled?) also Hardware_ECC_Recovered is also very high for some reason (bad cabling?) apart from the reallocated sector count.
//Danne
 
I don't think I have any sleep function enabled - but I'll double check. I bought the WD Red earlier today and am going to switch it out later.
This drive was part of my SnapRAID array. However, it did not have any data on it so nothing to sweat :)
 
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