PeteAron Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 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 Quote Link to comment
PeteAron Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 here is a screenshot and my last smart report. Smart_Rpt_52LO.txt Quote Link to comment
PeteAron Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 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! Quote Link to comment
mbryanr Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment
DaleWilliams Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/ Seagate's free drive diagnostic tool. Quote Link to comment
mr-hexen Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment
PeteAron Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 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? Quote Link to comment
DaleWilliams Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 The drives are fine. Leave them be. Quote Link to comment
DaleWilliams Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 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.) Quote Link to comment
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