March 21, 201115 yr Hi, I'm not too familiar with the different properties shown in SMART reports, but can you help take a look at this screenshot to see if the highlighted issues are anything I should be concerned about? For the WD EARS drive, I just use WDIDLE.exe /d on it, so that issue should be rectified already. For the drive that's missing, I'm running Hitachi Drive Fitness Test on it as I got the errors: 'Reallocation Event Count = 26' and 'Reallocated Sectors Count = 26'. Thanks!
March 23, 201115 yr Author There is no screen shot. Can you cut and paste the SMART report? Oops I thought there was one posted (I can see it). http://i.imgur.com/bcOsT.png (copy and paste into your browser)
March 23, 201115 yr The Seagates show the same thing so I wouldn't worry about them. The WD is showing a high LCC for the number of hours so it was a good idea to wdiddle it. As for the cache, I have 3 drives with UDMA CRC errors so I wouldn't worry about that one either. I suspect that one is an error on the SATA link. You could try another cable and make sure it isn't routed with a power cable. The missing one with the reallocated sectors is something to worry about, or at least keep an eye on it. Run it through 3 preclears if you have the time. I would want that count to not increase for 3 preclears before I would trust it. Peter
March 23, 201115 yr Author Sounds good. I already ran WDIDLE3 on the drive after using it for two weeks, so now the number is incrementing very slowly compared to before (around 3-6 a day?). Good to know about the Seagates, I figured the LBA messages were okay, but I wasn't sure about the 'high_fly_writes=1'. I also updated to the CC35 firmware on the 2TB Seagate. The other errors haven't gone up in a while. The drive with the CRC error was b/c of a bad cable a long time ago I think when it used to be in my desktop. It's my second oldest drive.
March 23, 201115 yr The other errors haven't gone up in a while. The drive with the CRC error was b/c of a bad cable a long time ago I think when it used to be in my desktop. It's my second oldest drive. If I recall correctly, running a "short SMART test" will reset the CRC and multi zone error rates to zero again. Regards, Stephen
April 1, 201115 yr My brand new 5K3000 had 5 reallocated sectors, but it's been spinning away for a month without any change.
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