Re: Dying hard drive?

[Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 06:50:11PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >According to the above, I would say only sda and sdb are bad, sda
> >being the worst of the two. I stand to be corrected as always.
> >
> >
> 
> Yeah - that's what it looks like to me as well (having gotten back
> to a screen other than my smartphone).

I hope that supplier I got this drives from will be willing to replace them on
basis of this results. Anyway, since it's RAID, they can be only replaced one
by one.

One question: how do you handle replacements like this? If supplier is willing
to replace bad drives, it is necessary to return bad ones, but data on those
drives are not intended to be seen by third parties. 

> It also looks like those drives are pretty old:
> >40 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       174414326932768
> >241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       23166370191361
> >242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       174661697951516

They work 24/7 for more than a year (over 400 days). That's not really old. My
WD desktop drive have 3.2 years of Power_On_Hours but with
Raw_Read_Error_Rate=0, Reallocated_Sector_Ct=0 and Seek_Error_Rate=0. 

Regards,
Veljko