January 28, 200917 yr Anyone want to comment on the reliability of this drive? I was going to throw it out several moths ago, but kept it for testing... and now, I have a good use for it -- testing the smarthistory application! root@BubbaDev:~# smartctl /dev/hdb -a smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar SE family Device Model: WDC WD2500JB-00EVA0 Serial Number: WD-WMAEH1091917 Firmware Version: 15.05R15 User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Wed Jan 28 09:54:23 2009 GMT+5 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: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes. General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 73) The previous self-test completed having a test element that failed and the test element that failed is not known. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (7608) 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. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 95) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. 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 0x000b 001 001 051 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 3129 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 106 100 021 Pre-fail Always - 5225 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 095 095 040 Old_age Always - 5997 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 071 071 140 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 2049 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 001 001 051 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 33033 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 071 071 000 Old_age Always - 21267 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2812 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 106 253 000 Old_age Always - 44 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 1 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 254 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 9 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 2049 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 155 051 Pre-fail Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 41581 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
January 28, 200917 yr If you get bored with smart testing, you may want to try spinwrite on it just for kicks and see what it thinks. mod spelling errrrorrrrr
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