On Thu September 3 2009, you wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:14:45AM +0200, MOgWai46[Saurceful of Secrets] wrote: > >> This is the output of smartctl -a /dev/sdc: > >> http://nopaste.com/p/aXwmnSEphb > > > > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 197 197 140 Pre-fail Always > > - 24 [...] > > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 197 197 000 Old_age Always > > - 3 > > > > IMHO it's time to replace the drive. I think it also shows that TLER is > > working just as expected: timing out when the recovery would have taken > > too long. > > The drive has only been spinning for 1008 hours, or about 42 days. It's > probably still under warranty, but I'd be surprised if WD (or any other > vendor) will accept an RMA since it will probably pass all its diagnostic > tests. I just returned a Seagate drive that passed all tests. But its reallocated sector count was over 1500 (and climbing 10 or more per hour). The support tech didn't have a problem with authorizing the RMA. So if the problem gets bad enough, they SHOULD take the drive back, or at least Seagate will. > > Note that those SMART attributes are nothing particularly scary and this is > backed up by both attributes being significantly higher than their > respective thresholds; modern drives have thousands of spare sectors, so a > few going bad is to be expected. > > > Gabor > > Best Regards, > Alex > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
