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Possibly failing disk and smartctl



Hi,

I have debian Squeeze installed on my machine. Computer is deployed with hard drive MAXTOR STM3320613AS. Recently, smartd have printed to logs the following messages:

Feb  4 20:53:18 zsm-debian smartd[1868]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Feb  4 20:53:18 zsm-debian smartd[1868]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 3 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Feb  4 20:53:18 zsm-debian smartd[1868]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 68 to 69
Feb  4 20:53:18 zsm-debian smartd[1868]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 32 to 31

After that I ran short selftests on given device, but they haven't found any error:

# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate and Reallocated_Sector_Ct - See more at: http://www.dlaube.com/2010/04/how-to-determine-if-a-sata-drive-is-failing/#sthash.MbF88UnI.dpuf
Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate and Reallocated_Sector_Ct - See more at: http://www.dlaube.com/2010/04/how-to-determine-if-a-sata-drive-is-failing/#sthash.MbF88UnI.dpuf
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate and Reallocated_Sector_Ct - See more at: http://www.dlaube.com/2010/04/how-to-determine-if-a-sata-drive-is-failing/#sthash.MbF88UnI.dpuf
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error 00%      6285         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error 00%      6285         -

Parameters of given disk are as follows:

# smartctl -A /dev/sda
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   117   099   006    Pre-fail Always       -       145320438
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   100   100   000    Pre-fail Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age Always       -       505
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   077   060   030    Pre-fail Always       -       55435033
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   093   093   000    Old_age Always       -       6286
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age Always       -       507
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   098   000    Old_age Always       -       44
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   080   080   000    Old_age Always       -       20
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   069   056   045    Old_age Always       -       31 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/33)
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   031   044   000    Old_age Always       -       31 (0 15 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   039   032   000    Old_age Always       -       145320438
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age Always       -       3
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age Offline      -       3
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age Always       -       0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age Offline      -       146926536235149
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age Offline      -       1178970182
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age Offline      -       2406483650

where Seek_Error_Rate grows slowly (aprox. by 3 every 2 seconds).

I have read that important pre-failing parameters are Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate and Reallocated_Sector_Ct but still I can't decide whether disk is failing or not. Can somebody help, whether it is needed to replace disk or not? Any help is appreciated...

Regards

Matus Valo
Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate and Reallocated_Sector_Ct - See more at: http://www.dlaube.com/2010/04/how-to-determine-if-a-sata-drive-is-failing/#sthash.MbF88UnI.dpuf

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