sazrocks Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 Hello, I have a couple of 8TB toshiba drives that I've had for a few years which recently started both saying there are some seek error rates in the smart report, however I'm not sure how to interpret the report. Are these just one off errors that could have been caused by a bad cable connection? Or are these drives legitimately failing and I need to put in replacements immediately? I've attached the smart reports to this post. TOSHIBA_HDWG180_X040A052FBEG-20231014-2301.txt TOSHIBA_HDWG180_X040A0CEFBEG-20231014-2300.txt Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 If you want to test the drives run the extended SMART tests on them. If that fails they need replacing. 1 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 That is common with some Toshiba drives, most likely a firmware issue, disks should be fine, but like mentioned run an extended test. 1 Quote Link to comment
sazrocks Posted October 15, 2023 Author Share Posted October 15, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, JorgeB said: That is common with some Toshiba drives, most likely a firmware issue, disks should be fine, but like mentioned run an extended test. I can't seem to get an extended or short test to even run on either of the drives, it tries and then a few seconds later says "Completed: unknown failure". The SMART error log is empty for both drives. Edited October 15, 2023 by sazrocks Quote Link to comment
sazrocks Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 Looking at the smart reports now, they now say "Past" for the seek error rate row. How can it go from "Failing" to "Past"? TOSHIBA_HDWG180_X040A052FBEG-20231015-1832.txt TOSHIBA_HDWG180_X040A0CEFBEG-20231015-1831.txt Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 7 hours ago, sazrocks said: How can it go from "Failing" to "Past"? That means it failed in the past but is not failing now. 15 hours ago, sazrocks said: I can't seem to get an extended or short test to even run on either of the drives, Run a non correcting parity check, it's basically the same as an extended SMART test. Quote Link to comment
sazrocks Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 10 hours ago, JorgeB said: Run a non correcting parity check, it's basically the same as an extended SMART test. Unfortunately the drives are both in a ZFS pool, so I can't do this. Should I run a scrub as the equivelant? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Scrub only reads the used part of the disk, so not equivalent to an extended SMART test or a parity check which read the full disk surface. Quote Link to comment
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