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Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?



On 28/04/14 08:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Well,
> 
> My personal experience with WD drives is that Raw_Read_Error_Rate is the
> best indicator of drive degradation.  In your case, it's 0, which is fine.
> 
>> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>>    1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always
>>        -       0
> 
> But...... It looks like your drive has never actually run any tests:
>> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
>> No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
>>
Good catch. I had noticed that SMART monitoring was not enabled when I
was upgrading the BIOS on this box - so it was enabled just today.
> 
> Looks to me like the first thing you have to do is actually RUN some tests.
> 
> Try:
> - smartctl -s on -A /dev/<whatever>
> 
> 
> Miles Fidelman
> 

Thanks. Will get it running right away.

KS


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