I just noticed MyMain in UnMenu is reporting an error in the SMART report for one of my drives.  It is a WD 1.5TB EADS.  It began showing multi_zone_error_rate=1.  Should I be concerned about the error??  I can always replace the drive with a 2TB drive and then RMA the drive since its under warranty.  On my last monthly parity check there was 3 sync errors, I'm wondering if it could be related to this.  Any suggestions??

 

Here is the SMART report:

 

smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdl (disk3)

smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)

Copyright © 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

 

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Model Family:    Western Digital Caviar Green family

Device Model:    WDC WD15EADS-00P8B0

Serial Number:    WD-WCAVU0193989

Firmware Version: 01.00A01

User Capacity:    1,500,301,910,016 bytes

Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]

ATA Version is:  8

ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated

Local Time is:    Sun Dec  5 13:24:23 2010 CST

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:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity

was completed without error.

Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.

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: (32580) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

Suspend Offline collection upon new

command.

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: (  2) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes.

Conveyance self-test routine

recommended polling time: (  5) minutes.

SCT capabilities:       (0x303f) SCT Status supported.

SCT Feature Control supported.

SCT Data Table supported.

 

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  182  177  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      5891

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  096  096  000    Old_age  Always      -      4592

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  200  200  140    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  088  088  000    Old_age  Always      -      9180

10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      118

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      78

193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  181  181  000    Old_age  Always      -      57408

194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  122  094  000    Old_age  Always      -      28

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  200  200  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x0008  200  200  000    Old_age  Offline      -      1

 

SMART Error Log Version: 1

No Errors Logged

 

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

 

 

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.

Odds are they would accept the drive, but there is no way it can be considered as failing.

 

The current value is 200 the initialized value from the factory.  The threshold for failure is 0.  There is no way they would consider the drive as failing.

 

You can continue using the drive.  There is absolutely no need to RMA it.

Thanks Joe!  I guess I'm just paranoid!

 

Now I just have to track down why I had 3 sync errors on the last parity check...

Your load cycle count seems high.  Nothing to be overly concerned, but might want to research why.

 

Your drive has been powered up 9180 hours = 382.5 (24 hours) days

 

Take the LCC of 57,408 and divide by 382.5 and you get 150 load cycles average per day!

 

I did some searching and found an example of a disk rated for 600,000 LCCs in its lifetime, so 57K isn't disasterous.

 

But by comparison, I have a drive that has 21,414 hours (2.5 years) with 4786 LCCs = 5.4 LCCs average.

 

What is you sprindown time set to?  In my search I found someone with 500,000 LCCs with a very short spindown timer!