Hello all.

 

I've had Errors from one of my drives for a while but the SMART overall-health report still says "Passed", and the Parity drives seemed to keep correcting the problem because the array wasn't dropping the drive. Finally had time to move the data off the drive and find room for it all (8TB).

 

Now What?

 

Was I worried for nothing? Procrastinating? Is the drive really ready to fail?  Is the drive "fixable". Would preclearing it again help? What do you even do with a bad drive (out of warranty)? Use it as a door stop?

 

Ran Fix Common Problems (a number of times), and extended tests were okay. Read most of the info on Understanding SMART Reports. Not unsurprisingly, it didn't really help. spent a couple hours browsing the forums. I could use a little advice. 

 

Please find attached smart report and syslog. And thank you in advance.

 

Michael...

leone4-smart-20180330-1313.zip

leone4-syslog-20180330-1312.zip

4 minutes ago, TonyTheTiger said:

but the SMART overall-health report still says "Passed"

SMART overall heat report is uselless, you can have a disk with 2000 pending sectors and it will stil say passed.

 

On the other hand, a failed SMART test = failing drive

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Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed: read failure       10%     11041         14196715680

 

Ok. So I wasn't overreacting. Probably more like procrastinating. And was lucky to get everything off it before it failed. I assume using it for anything else is courting disaster. Is the silly thing reusable? Recyclable? Should I try to preclear data (scrub) before I get rid of it? Trash or electronic waste dropoff?

 

BTW - the fan on the top of the case has been acting up (new one on order). Do you think that the temps were merely "not good" for the system or is there a direct correlation with the life span of this drive? Or was it just (bad) luck? There are15 drives in the server - most much older.

 

Thanks again in advance.

 

Michael...

11 hours ago, TonyTheTiger said:

I assume using it for anything else is courting disaster. Is the silly thing reusable? Recyclable? Should I try to preclear data (scrub) before I get rid of it? Trash or electronic waste dropoff?

I would never trust is for anything important.

 

11 hours ago, TonyTheTiger said:

BTW - the fan on the top of the case has been acting up (new one on order). Do you think that the temps were merely "not good" for the system or is there a direct correlation with the life span of this drive? Or was it just (bad) luck? There are15 drives in the server - most much older.

 

Lifetime    Min/Max Temperature:     14/47 Celsius

While a little over the recommended max temp, IMO not high enough to cause problems.