On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
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.
Different circumstances; your drive's reallocated count was higher and
consistently climbing.
Sectors go bad, drives have spares, drives with reallocated sectors aren't
necessarily dead or about to die imminently, keep backups of files that are
important to you in case a file occupies a sector that goes bad, RAID is not
backup.
Gabor
Alex
Best Regards,
Alex
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