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below is the result of clearing a brand new 2TB WD enterprise disk:

 

 

===========================================================================

=                unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sda

=                      cycle 1 of 1

= Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed                                DONE

= Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes            DONE

= Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE

= Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward.          DONE

= Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4      DONE

= Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area                        DONE

= Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes                    DONE

= Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state        DONE

= Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning  DONE

= Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries            DONE

= Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful.    DONE

= Disk Post-Clear-Read completed                                DONE

Disk Temperature: 40C, Elapsed Time:  29:26:44

============================================================================

==

== Disk /dev/sda has been successfully precleared

==

============================================================================

S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear

note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

19,20c19,20

< Offline data collection status:  (0x80)      Offline data collection activity

<                                      was never started.

---

> Offline data collection status:  (0x84)      Offline data collection activity

>                                      was suspended by an interrupting command from host.

54c54

<  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  100  253  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

---

>  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

58c58

<  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

---

>  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

63c63

< 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      7

---

> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      9

67c67

< 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

---

> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

============================================================================

root@TheCube:/boot#

 

 

 

 

Posted

below is the result of clearing a brand new 2TB WD enterprise disk:

 

 

===========================================================================

=                unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sda

=                       cycle 1 of 1

= Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed                                 DONE

= Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes             DONE

= Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE

= Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward.           DONE

= Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4       DONE

= Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area                         DONE

= Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes                    DONE

= Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state        DONE

= Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning   DONE

= Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries             DONE

= Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful.     DONE

= Disk Post-Clear-Read completed                                DONE

Disk Temperature: 40C, Elapsed Time:  29:26:44

============================================================================

==

== Disk /dev/sda has been successfully precleared

==

============================================================================

S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear

note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

19,20c19,20

< Offline data collection status:  (0x80)       Offline data collection activity

<                                       was never started.

---

> Offline data collection status:  (0x84)       Offline data collection activity

>                                       was suspended by an interrupting command from host.

54c54

<   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   100   253   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0

---

>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0

58c58

<   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

---

>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

63c63

< 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       7

---

> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       9

67c67

< 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

---

> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

============================================================================

root@TheCube:/boot#

 

 

 

 

The version of the preclear script you are using is probably 10 to 16 versions old.  If you used a current version you would have a vastly different final output and would not be asking the same question. 

 

The current version is 1.13 as of this post.  You can try

preclear_disk.sh -v

and see if it shows you the version you are running.

 

To answer your question.  Nothing looks obviously bad, but there is no way to know without you analyzing the final SMART report.  All the older version of the pre-clear script did was show you the diffs between the smart report at the beginning of the clearing process and that at the end.  Other than factory initialized values changing from 253 to their initial starting values of 100, I see nothing else that changed.

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