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Drive has red balled. Can someone confirm this drive as dead? (SMART inside)

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Hi All,

 

Just followed the troubleshooting section of the site, and spotted the highlighted problems that the guide says to look out for.

Seems that the drive is well and truly failed/failing.

 

It's quite new (4ish months old) so I will probably return it, but before I do so, can someone call time on it (as I'm not a doctor :P)

 

Conversely, If it does look fine, advice for my next steps would be greatly appreciated.

 

Many Thanks,

Austin

 

root@Tower:~# smartctl -a -d ata /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:     ST2000DM001-9YN164
Serial Number:    ****** (OBSCURED BY AUSTINGEORGE)
Firmware Version: CC4H
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:    Tue Aug 27 23:00:33 2013 BST
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:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      ( 121) The previous self-test completed having
                                        the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                 ( 592) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        No 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:              (0x3085) SCT Status 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   116   099   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       101225448
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   093   092   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   098   098   020    Old_age   Always       -       2803
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   074   060   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       8645921123
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   091   091   000    Old_age   Always       -       8370
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   020    Old_age   Always       -       2015
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   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       414
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4295032833
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   084   084   000    Old_age   Always       -       16
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   061   055   045    Old_age   Always       -       39 (Min/Max 36/39)
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       -       100
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   096   096   000    Old_age   Always       -       9160
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   039   045   000    Old_age   Always       -       39 (0 17 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   038   038   000    Old_age   Always       -       10304
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   038   038   000    Old_age   Offline      -       10304
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       218347547399844
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       140971955382684
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       166230312339591

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 1
        CR = Command Register [HEX]
        FR = Features Register [HEX]
        SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
        SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
        CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
        CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
        DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
        DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
        ER = Error register [HEX]
        ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 8368 hours (348 days + 16 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  04 71 00 00 00 00 40  Device Fault; Error: ABRT

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff  28d+05:24:08.322  NOP [Abort queued commands]
  c8 00 f8 17 66 00 e0 00  28d+05:23:37.392  READ DMA
  c8 00 10 07 66 00 e0 00  28d+05:23:37.392  READ DMA
  25 00 48 bf 64 00 e0 00  28d+05:23:37.390  READ DMA EXT
  c8 00 20 9f 64 00 e0 00  28d+05:23:37.390  READ DMA

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%      8370         20704

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.

Most of the parameters look fine, until you get near the bottom of the table!  It does not look as if it has failed yet, but certainly appears to be failing.  With bad sector counts that high, there must be some mechanical damage inside, and I would not trust it at all.  It looks like you may still be able to recover some of the files off it though.  Grab the most important, then the almost as important, then the increasingly lesser files until you either have everything you want off it, or it has quit completely.

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Hi Rob,

 

Thanks for your diagnosis!

I'll definitely grab as much as I can. Is it just a matter of mounting the disk as a share, then copying files to another disk?

 

Also, when i'm reading the airflow temp, should i read the figures as that it reached 55degC, with nominal 45degC?

Trying to se if my enclosure is too restrictive, as it does get quite warm.

 

Thanks again!

Austin

I'll definitely grab as much as I can. Is it just a matter of mounting the disk as a share, then copying files to another disk?

If it's not a part of the array, then you will have to manually mount it, or mount it with UnMENU.  I'm not a Linux guru, so perhaps others can help better with that.  I couldn't find the info on mounting I thought we had.

 

Once mounted, use Midnight Commander (mc at the command line) to copy files.  See Transferring Files Within the unRAID Server for a little help.

 

Also, when i'm reading the airflow temp, should i read the figures as that it reached 55degC, with nominal 45degC?

Trying to se if my enclosure is too restrictive, as it does get quite warm.

If I recall correctly, that WORST of 55 is interpreted as 100-55 (so that as the temp gets worse, WORST value will decrease), which makes it equal to 45degC, the highest temp measured.  Currently, it is 39, which is a little warm, but not excessive.  If you can improve the cooling, do so.

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It is part of the array. My setup consists of 6x2Gb drives (of which, 1 has failed), and a 320gb cache drive.

 

The remainder of the array starts fine, but the failed drive doesn't start with the array and stays offline when looking at the tower array menu.

 

Surely as I have a parity drive I can just reconstruct the array by replacing the failed drive with a new one?

 

Also, amazon have accepted the return and a new one should pop through my door tomorrow.

 

Regarding the cooling, as the enclosure is quite prone to vibrations and dust, I reduced the fan speeds considerably. I'll up them slightly and hopefully it'll drop the temps a tad.

If it's part of the array, that's great!  When you start the array, UnRAID will either mount it, if it can, or create a virtual version of it, with all of its contents reconstructed from the other data drives and the parity drive.  You will have safe access to everything on that drive, in case you need anything.  But replace it as soon as you can.  Many of us prefer to PreClear a new drive first, to ensure it's a good drive.  That will take a little more time.

 

Until the new drive has been rebuilt in its place, I would limit all other reading and writing to the array, just for safety.  It's not that you can't make changes to the array now, but if one drive is down, then you no longer have parity protection against an additional drive going down.  Some don't feel this caution is necessary, perhaps I'm more cautious than most.

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Ah right, that's fine. I thought that's how it worked. Your comment about copying things off the failed drive threw me. Glad I went for a parity drive now. I'm a bit of a tight-ass when it comes to redundancy.

 

As for stopping other drives from failing; the server is just hosting torrent uploads and an xbmc media share, so I've just shut the whole thing down.

 

I'll put it on to pre-clear tonight when I get the drive

 

Thanks for all your help Rob!

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