Ok, here is the final report.  Looks like it takes jus over 52 hours for this model hard drive and my particular hardware.  If I am reading this correctly, everything is ok with the disk.  Can I get you guys to tell me if I should take this one back or not?

 

================================================================== 1.15

=                unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sde

=              cycle 1 of 1, partition start on sector 1

= Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed                                DONE

= Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes            DONE

= Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE

= Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward.          DONE

= Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4      DONE

= Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area                        DONE

= Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes                    DONE

= Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state        DONE

= Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning  DONE

= Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries            DONE

= Step 10 of 10 - Verifying if the MBR is cleared.              DONE

= Disk Post-Clear-Read completed                                DONE

Disk Temperature: 33C, Elapsed Time:  52:11:21

========================================================================1.15

== ST5000DM000-1FK178  W4J00SSN

== Disk /dev/sde has been successfully precleared

== with a starting sector of 1

============================================================================

** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sde  /tmp/smart_finish_sde

                ATTRIBUTE  NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS      RAW_VALUE

      Raw_Read_Error_Rate =  120    118            6        ok          415664

        Spin_Retry_Count =  100    100          97        near_thresh 0

        End-to-End_Error =  100    100          99        near_thresh 0

  Airflow_Temperature_Cel =    67      66          45        near_thresh 33

      Temperature_Celsius =    33      34            0        ok          33

  Hardware_ECC_Recovered =  120    118            0        ok          415664

No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW

 

0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear.

0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1.

0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1.

0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear,

    the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change.

0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear.

0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear,

    the number of sectors re-allocated did not change.

 

Bump....Is it the sectors pending allocation that is at 0 that means everything is ok with this disk?

Looks good to me.

Bump....Is it the sectors pending allocation that is at 0 that means everything is ok with this disk?

 

It's the fact that the preclear was successful, and you see zeros for all the sector reports.

 

Any report like this you know the disk is good.

Sounds good guys.  Thanks for the input.

 

Now for another question.

 

I think I have narrowed down my slow read/write problem to the controller card.  No matter what port I plug a SATA cable in to on it (it has 4 ports), the read speed is 11MB/sec when starting the preclear script.  If I connect to the on-board SATA ports (It has , the speed is 160+MB/Sec.  This was a cheap controller card and I have been using it for a year or so.  I am thinking maybe it is flaky.  Advice?

Sounds good guys.  Thanks for the input.

 

Now for another question.

 

I think I have narrowed down my slow read/write problem to the controller card.  No matter what port I plug a SATA cable in to on it (it has 4 ports), the read speed is 11MB/sec when starting the preclear script.  If I connect to the on-board SATA ports (It has , the speed is 160+MB/Sec.  This was a cheap controller card and I have been using it for a year or so.  I am thinking maybe it is flaky.  Advice?

 

I should also say that it's a HighPoint RocketRAID 640 host adapter.  I am guessing they suck?

I would now run two (2) more cycles.  But that is just me.  If it is going to fail, I want it to fail while I can still return it versus dealing with warranty exchange.

Regarding the cheap controller, I did order one of these a few days ago.  I am building another unRAID box:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118182

 

And I picked up two of these to go with it:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200884

Interesting.  The only mention of a HighPoint RocketRAID 640 controller is this post.   

Interesting.  The only mention of a HighPoint RocketRAID 640 controller is this post. 

 

Likely not the best sign from a compatibility standpoint.

 

I have a RocketRAID 9450 (I think that is the model), but am not using it in UnRAID. I have it creating a RAID 10 array on my XenServer machine. I've never even tried it with UnRAID.

I have no idea if its compatible or not,  but that card is probably overkill for unRAID.

I have picked one of these up to go with my new HBA:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/171259613148?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649

 

I got them yesterday and have everything installed.  This new card is very fast.  I love it. Night and day difference from the HighPoint RocketRAID card I had.

So in the end, I am chalking this one up to a bad controller card.  It's what I get for going cheap.