Hi everyone,

 

I am experiencing what I think might be a problem with my Seagate 3 TB drives.  My server config is in my sig and I have attached a syslog and copies of the smart reports for the 4 3 TB Seagates in my array.  Each of these drives is showing either high fly writes or high load cycle counts or both.  The 2 TB drives show neither of these  errors. 

 

I just bought 3 more 3 TB Seagates and am preclearing them in a brand new 3 TB array running Unraid 5.0.  The preclear is not finished and already one drive has a high fly writes count of 1.  This occurred with one of the above drives.

 

No sectors have been reallocated on any of these drives, none are pending, and none have seen high temperatures. 

 

Is this an issue?  What should I do?

 

thanks for your help. 

 

syslog-2013-12-06.txt

Smart_Rpt_0D23.txt

Smart_Rpt_AZ66.txt

Smart_Rpt_KH58.txt

here is a screenshot and my last smart report.

Smart_Rpt_52LO.txt

Not an issue.

I remember the wd green drives had a problem with load cycle count. Is this no longer a problem?

 

I'm seriously very concerned about this.  Can someone please give me a more detailed answer?

 

thanks!

https://www.google.com/search?q=st3000dm001+high+cycle+count&oq=st3000dm001+high+cycle+count&aqs=chrome..69i57.11440j0j1&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

 

Chirping as well? A firmware update will correct the chirp.

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/

Seagate's free drive diagnostic tool.

I remember the wd green drives had a problem with load cycle count. Is this no longer a problem?

 

I'm seriously very concerned about this.  Can someone please give me a more detailed answer?

 

thanks!

 

the WD LCC issues were when the drive had very little poweron hours and an extremely high LCC count (100k+)

 

you are averaging around 1 LCC per power on hour, completely reasonable.

Thanks for the info hexen. I didnt realize that. Why would the seagate 2tb drives not show the same behavior?

 

Thanks for the link Dale. I do need to update my firmware.  It sounds like i need to shutdown the array and hook the drives up to a windows computer to do this?

 

It sounds like i need to shutdown the array and hook the drives up to a windows computer to do this?

I've never changed the firmware in a hard drive, perhaps someone else can help.

 

The drives are fine. Leave them be.

The drives are fine. Leave them be.

I agree. In several decades of this stuff, I've never needed to 'upgrade' hard drive firmware.

Unless its to fix a fault that makes the drive unusable, I wouldn't mess with it.

 

(I'd share the list of all the stuff that I have bricked while 'fixing' them, but it's just too depressing.)