SMART Hard Drive Test

[barrettj]

Brand new 1 tb hard drive has been giving me errors, I'm new to linux but I think I ran the short and long tests successfully, this is the output:

 

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error

# 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure      90%        45        1910

# 2  Short offline      Completed: handling damage??  90%        32        -

# 3  Short offline      Completed: handling damage??  90%        26        -

 

That means the drive is bad and I should RMA it, correct?  Thanks!

[Joe L.]

Brand new 1 tb hard drive has been giving me errors, I'm new to linux but I think I ran the short and long tests successfully, this is the output:

 

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error

# 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%        45         1910

# 2  Short offline       Completed: handling damage??  90%        32         -

# 3  Short offline       Completed: handling damage??  90%        26         -

 

That means the drive is bad and I should RMA it, correct?  Thanks!

It indicates it found a single read error at LBA 1910 and then aborted the test.    

 

Modern drives are expected to have bad blocks and have a reserve of several thousand blocks to use to re-allocate if a bad one is detected.  You probably have a block marked for re-allocation. (The re-allocation does not occur until you write to the sector, because until then the disk would not know what it should contain. )

 

You need to post the entire SMART report.  The drive may be perfectly fine.

 

Joe L.