February 4, 201610 yr I'm trying to track down a smart error on a less than year old Seagate ST5000DM000 5TB drive which is my Partity Drive. SMART Log attached. I'm seeing several things that I'd like to know if are important or not: 1. In the dashboard, I see a warning which takes me to disk attributes. I see "Reported Incorrect" at 13 raw value indicating there have been 13 incorrect sectors? Should I worry about this? 2. I was looking at unMenu Smart View to see if it shows anything interesting. It did indicate "HPA?" (see image). When I hover over HPA? I see "Warning: Detected non-standard drive size - may contain an HPA. Set drive hpa_ok attribute to 1 to ignore" Thanks in advance... hunternas-smart-20160204-1110.zip
February 4, 201610 yr According to blackblaze anything above 0 it’s not good news and there’s a much higher probability of failure in the near future, I’ve no personal experience with that attribute, and I’ve seen many here on the forum with higher values, maybe monitor value and keep a spare handy. As to the HPA I believe myMain has this issue with 5 and 6TB disks.
February 4, 201610 yr As to the HPA I believe myMain has this issue with 5 and 6TB disks.Mymain has a list of common bytecounts for popular drive sizes, if the list doesn't include that precise bytecount, it warns of possible HPA. It just means the list hasn't been updated with 5TB disk size yet.
February 4, 201610 yr Author @johnnie.black, great find. FYI for any others out there looking, you can find the Smart Statistics johnnie showed at https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/ Love what BackBlaze has done for the community with sharing their drive stats. One reason I went with the Seagate 5 TB was the (almost) low failure rates on the BackBlaze stats (and the fact I could buy them for $100!). HGST is the best, other Seagates, not so much, but the 4TB and 5TB seem to do better so far...except for my experience! I have 4 5TB drives and 1 4TB and (almost) losing the first after 10 mos... Potentially a 20% failure rate...! These were pulls from external USB drives. Maybe an External Drive pull is not the best choice, but even if I lose the drive (no warranty because of pull from external drive cabinet), I'm still ahead of paying $180 (at the time) per drive for a Seagate - or even $250 for an HGST new in static bag. Time will tell if my experiment is a good one... You can still find SeaGate 5TB drives in a USB drive for $120 or less. Only real issue I have found is the drive parks faster than regular desktop drives. Which is annoying on a desktop, but not so bad on a NAS...esp with a fast SSD cache. Any other opinions/thoughts on my choice?
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