sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
Re: sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
Yes, that paste is missing a bunch of text to the right hand side, it currently ends at WHEN_ which should really be WHEN_FAILED and then the next column is RAW_VALUE which contains the interesting numbers.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Re: sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
For example (with a lot of preview/adjust columns):
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Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
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
Re: sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
Yeah I had to open the terminal in fullscreen almost and re-run the command, sorry bout that.TrevorH wrote:Yes, that paste is missing a bunch of text to the right hand side, it currently ends at WHEN_ which should really be WHEN_FAILED and then the next column is RAW_VALUE which contains the interesting numbers.
Here it is again, I put a picture because trying to paste it into here makes it come off incorrect (its not aligned nicely, its confusing)
http://i.imgur.com/IU00buo.png
Re: sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
So the platters look okay (0 redirects). But many seek and read errors - perhaps the motor/controller is packing up? Personally, I'd just say yes and get a new disk.
Re: sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
Alright will do, I might as well buy two of em. One just for the OS (I have one for backups already) and another where I keep all my movies etc (atm the OS is on one partition and all my media is on a second partition but same drive). I think that is what probably messed the drive up, copying large single files (movies/videos) and also streaming off of them...one would think a hard drive purchased two years ago wouldn't die from this.avij wrote:Looks like I no longer have any physical servers running CentOS 6, so I'm not sure if the output of hdparm in C6 is the same as in C7. If it is, you should be looking at the RAW_VALUE column instead of the VALUE column. Yes, it is a bit confusing.
Re: sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
Consumer grade disk drives are mass produced items. If you get a bum one, you get a bum one - but maybe "shout" at the manufacturer? Most of them provide data on mean time to failure.
Re: sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
Digging a bit more into this, apparently it is normal behvaior to have large read/seek error counts? http://askubuntu.com/questions/20393/ho ... -t-results Not sure how reputable ubuntu forums are, although there were 16 up arrows. Seagate drives also apparently don't correctly display the data on the SMART values because it doesnt show all the bits or something? http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/26740 ... error-rateaks wrote:Consumer grade disk drives are mass produced items. If you get a bum one, you get a bum one - but maybe "shout" at the manufacturer? Most of them provide data on mean time to failure.
Also this https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index. ... RT_Reports just search for "Raw read and" and it seems its also pretty normal.
Re: sda errors, is my hard drive about to die?
MTBF data is useless unless you are buying hard drives by the hundred. MTBF says nothing about how long a drive can be expected to last.aks wrote:Consumer grade disk drives are mass produced items. If you get a bum one, you get a bum one - but maybe "shout" at the manufacturer? Most of them provide data on mean time to failure.