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is my HDD dead

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had a disk come up last night disabled, thinking it could just be a loose cable i shutdown, checked cables and started again. There is currently one write error although last night there were several. the drive is mounted as SDE and passes smart tests without errors. I have attached my syslog.  Simple features says no errors are logged on the disk

 

 

My version is 5-rc12a

syslog-2013-05-13.txt.zip

Is it now shown as okay on the Web GUI?

 

Check the SMART status and post it here.

 

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Is it now shown as okay on the Web GUI?

 

Check the SMART status and post it here.

 

 

It was still shown as disabled after restart but smart said a short test completed with no errors, will have to wait till I get home from work to post smart status

Is it now shown as okay on the Web GUI?

 

Check the SMART status and post it here.

 

 

It was still shown as disabled after restart but smart said a short test completed with no errors, will have to wait till I get home from work to post smart status

Once disabled a disk will NEVER go back to non-disabled by itself.  A write to it failed.  It is is why it was disabled.  The contents are guaranteed to be incorrect.  (because the write to it failed) It MUST be re-constructed, or forced back in if you can deal with the file or file-system corruption.  That re-construction has absolutely nothing to do with a failed or passed short or long test.    The fact that the disk is responding means it is not completely dead.

 

You might have fixed it when you re-seated the cables.  to re-construct the drive, stop the array, temporarily un-assign the failed drive.  then start the array with it un-assigned.  (unRAID will then forget the model/serial number of the drive and allow it to be used as its own replacement.) Then, stop the array once more, and re-assign the drive, then re-start the array.  the failed disk will be re-constructed from parity in combination with all the other drives.

 

 

Interesting trick to force a re-build with the same drive.    I've done this exact thing before when a drive wasn't seated well in a hot-swap cage;  but I didn't remember removing/replacing it in the array.  [it's been a couple years, so my ageing memory apparently just forgot  :) ]

 

In any event, that drive is still working perfectly 2 years later -- so if your problem was indeed just a cable that needed to be reset, you should be fine once the system rebuilds it.

 

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So Is the drive salvageable if I rebuild it? It looks as though it is (to me) but I'll upgrade ut to 3TB if its gonna die

Last SMART test result:	Completed without errors
SMART status:	
Passed

Device Model:     ST2000DL003
Serial Number:    5YD59HH6
Firmware Version: CC32
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:  ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is:    Mon May 13 15:25:58 2013 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   099   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       398640
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   093   092   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       831
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   055   055   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       3861539351114
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   086   086   000    Old_age   Always       -       12654
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       543
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   096   000    Old_age   Always       -       17180131338
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   067   054   045    Old_age   Always       -       33 (Min/Max 28/35)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       402
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       911
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   033   046   000    Old_age   Always       -       33 (0 13 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   037   006   000    Old_age   Always       -       398640
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       1
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       226340481539123
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       1749124846
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       1302638883

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: 		 ( 623) 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: 	 (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x30b7)	SCT Status supported.
				SCT Feature Control supported.
				SCT Data Table supported.

Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     12644         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     12477         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     12476         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      2442         -

No Errors Logged

It certainly seems like it is.    Do as Joe noted and see if it rebuilds okay.    If not, simply replace it with a nice new 3TB drive  :)

This parameter in the SMART report indicates the drive retracted its heads on unexpectedly losing power over 400 times.

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      402

That points to a power supply/power cable/power connection issue.

 

This parameter in the SMART report indicates the drive retracted its heads on unexpectedly losing power over 400 times.

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      402

That points to a power supply/power cable/power connection issue.

 

Good catch Joe - I missed that (it's on the left side in my browser .. I needed to make the window wider!)

 

It's actually amazing how often apparently failing/failed disks can actually be a cable or power issue.

 

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Cheers, I did recheck those cables as well, the psu is only about 1yr old

the psu is only about 1yr old

Age has nothing to do with whether or not it is the issue. Brand new parts can fail.
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Yeah, I guess I will have to just wait and see if anything else occurs?

 

I just remembered that this disk was green until I started using Midnight Commander to re-balance my disk usage after installing a new 3TB drive

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