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OK looking at the long SMART report, the drive doesn't look too bad at all. I think I'm still going to replace it as I'll always regret it if I don't and it fails! Plus it is almost 4 years old now, so it has served me well.

 

smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.1.13-unRAID] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Device Model:     ST3000DM001-9YN166
Serial Number:    W1F0MS4V
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 05119bc8f
Firmware Version: CC4B
User Capacity:    3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Wed Feb 10 08:29:19 2016 GMT

==> WARNING: A firmware update for this drive may be available,
see the following Seagate web pages:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223651en

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: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)	Offline data collection activity
				was never started.
				Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
				without error or no self-test has ever 
				been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(  584) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
				Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
				Suspend Offline collection upon new
				command.
				No 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.
				General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 340) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x3085)	SCT Status supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   117   099   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       164811800
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   092   092   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   099   099   020    Old_age   Always       -       1084
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   070   060   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       11153886
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   080   080   000    Old_age   Always       -       17574
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       64
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0 0 0
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   071   061   045    Old_age   Always       -       29 (Min/Max 21/36)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       14
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   094   094   000    Old_age   Always       -       12160
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   029   040   000    Old_age   Always       -       29 (0 15 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       634h+47m+36.067s
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       63125348141158
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       2738158456079

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     17565         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     17560         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

 

This also gives me the opportunity to take my time and read through some SMART report topics and see if I can figure out what all the values mean. The main thing that confuses me is that I'm not sure whether I should be looking at VALUE, WORST, THRESH or RAW_VALUE. It certainly seems that this will be cleared up by reading Understanding SMART Reports wiki.

 

Thanks for all the help everyone.

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That drive looks fine.  Issue is, if it starts to go south, it will happen fast.

If that is your parity drive, then I would not worry as much unless you do not trust your data drives.

 

I would suggest a smart long test (disable spin down timer) on your data drives for peace of mind.

 

Also, make sure you are doing at least monthly parity checks.

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That drive looks fine.  Issue is, if it starts to go south, it will happen fast.

If that is your parity drive, then I would not worry as much unless you do not trust your data drives.

 

Yeah a couple of the drives are getting a bit old. I had planned on replacing a drive every 3 months until they have all been replaced, so I'll move the brand new drive to the parity. While I wouldn't be devastated if I lost the data on my array (the important stuff is backed up online), it would be very inconvenient.

 

I would suggest a smart long test (disable spin down timer) on your data drives for peace of mind.

 

Also, make sure you are doing at least monthly parity checks.

 

Already do the monthly checks, but I'll run some long tests tonight before bed.

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