aneelley Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment
aneelley Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Bump....Is it the sectors pending allocation that is at 0 that means everything is ok with this disk? Quote Link to comment
bkastner Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment
aneelley Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 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? Quote Link to comment
aneelley Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 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? Quote Link to comment
switchman Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment
aneelley Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment
aneelley Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Interesting. The only mention of a HighPoint RocketRAID 640 controller is this post. Quote Link to comment
bkastner Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I have no idea if its compatible or not, but that card is probably overkill for unRAID. Quote Link to comment
aneelley Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment
aneelley Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 So in the end, I am chalking this one up to a bad controller card. It's what I get for going cheap. Quote Link to comment
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