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Preclear Results

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Hello everyone,

 

I just wanted to get some interpretation regarding the preclear results of two hard drives.

 

One drive (WD Green 2TB) previously gave me "bad blocks" errors, however I suspect they were unfounded.

Other other drive, a 500GB Seagate, was donated to me by a relative in the form of an external hard drive.

 

I guess I'm basically looking for any reason not to use these drives.

 

500GB Seagate

 

========================================================================1.13
== invoked as: ./preclear_disk.sh /dev/sdo
==  ST3500630AS    6QG2NPZQ
== Disk /dev/sdo has been successfully precleared
== with a starting sector of 64 
== Ran 1 cycle
==
== Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes
== Last Cycle's Pre Read Time  : 2:23:25 (58 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Zeroing time   : 2:10:52 (63 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 4:32:10 (30 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Total Time     : 9:07:27
==
== Total Elapsed Time 9:07:27
==
== Disk Start Temperature: 45C
==
== Current Disk Temperature: -->48<--C, 
==
============================================================================
** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdo  /tmp/smart_finish_sdo
                ATTRIBUTE   NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS      RAW_VALUE
         Spin_Retry_Count =   100     100           97        near_thresh 0
         End-to-End_Error =   100     100           97        near_thresh 0
  Airflow_Temperature_Cel =    52      55            0        ok          48
      Temperature_Celsius =    48      45            0        ok          48
   Hardware_ECC_Recovered =    58      67            0        ok          137655894
No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW

0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear.
0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1.
0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1.
0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear,
    the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change.
55 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear.
55 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear,
    the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. 
============================================================================

Disk: /dev/sdo
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family
Device Model:     ST3500630AS
Serial Number:    6QG2NPZQ
Firmware Version: 3.CHN
User Capacity:    500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   7
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Fri Feb  8 11:09:55 2013 Local time zone must be set--see zic m
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82)	Offline data collection activity
				was completed without error.
				Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
				without error or no self-test has ever 
				been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		 ( 433) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
				Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
				Suspend Offline collection upon new
				command.
				Offline surface scan supported.
				Self-test supported.
				No Conveyance Self-test supported.
				Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
				power-saving mode.
				Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
				General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 167) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x0035)	SCT Status supported.
				SCT Feature Control supported.
				SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   253   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0002   093   092   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0033   099   099   020    Pre-fail  Always       -       1178
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   099   099   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       55
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   084   060   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       273159144
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   095   095   000    Old_age   Always       -       5187
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0033   099   099   020    Pre-fail  Always       -       1085
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033   100   253   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x0022   100   100   045    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   052   050   000    Old_age   Always       -       48 (Min/Max 41/50)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x001a   048   050   000    Old_age   Always       -       48 (0 15 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x0012   058   049   000    Old_age   Always       -       137655894
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x003e   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0000   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs  0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

 

 

2TB Western Digital Green

 

========================================================================1.13
== invoked as: ./preclear_disk.sh /dev/sde
==  WDC WD20EARX-008FB0    WD-WCAZAE710057
== Disk /dev/sde has been successfully precleared
== with a starting sector of 64 
== Ran 1 cycle
==
== Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes
== Last Cycle's Pre Read Time  : 7:00:58 (79 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Zeroing time   : 6:04:18 (91 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 12:45:07 (43 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Total Time     : 25:51:23
==
== Total Elapsed Time 25:51:23
==
== Disk Start Temperature: 36C
==
== Current Disk Temperature: 37C, 
==
============================================================================
** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sde  /tmp/smart_finish_sde
                ATTRIBUTE   NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS      RAW_VALUE
          Seek_Error_Rate =   100     200            0        ok          0
      Temperature_Celsius =   113     114            0        ok          37
  Reallocated_Event_Count =   196     197            0        ok          4
No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW

3 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear.
3 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1.
0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1.
0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear,
    a change of -3 in the number of sectors pending re-allocation.
3 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear.
4 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear,
    a change of 1 in the number of sectors re-allocated. 
============================================================================

 

Disk: /dev/sde
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     WDC WD20EARX-008FB0
Serial Number:    WD-WCAZAE710057
Firmware Version: 51.0AB51
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Sat Feb  9 03:56:46 2013 Local time zone must be set--see zic m
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82)	Offline data collection activity
				was completed without error.
				Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
				without error or no self-test has ever 
				been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		 (33360) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
				Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
				Suspend Offline collection upon new
				command.
				Offline surface scan supported.
				Self-test supported.
				Conveyance Self-test supported.
				Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
				power-saving mode.
				Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
				General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x30b5)	SCT Status supported.
				SCT Feature Control supported.
				SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       41
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   185   179   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       5716
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       404
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       4
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       2727
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       75
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       66
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   181   181   000    Old_age   Always       -       58032
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   113   104   000    Old_age   Always       -       37
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   196   196   000    Old_age   Always       -       4
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       3
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       7

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1804         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1662         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

It is good that the number of re-allocated sectors on the first drive did not change.  (It had 55 before the preclea, and no additional after)

 

The other disk seemed to identify an additional sector it could not read.  I would run another cycle on it, just to be sure it stabilizes.

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It is good that the number of re-allocated sectors on the first drive did not change.  (It had 55 before the preclea, and no additional after)

 

The other disk seemed to identify an additional sector it could not read.  I would run another cycle on it, just to be sure it stabilizes.

 

Thanks for the (very) fast reply Joe.  I'll run a preclear on the WD 2TB drive again when I get home.

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