On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 at 11:03:48PM +0000, Leo wrote:
> Have you tried running a test -
> smartctl -t long /dev/sdc
> and then
> smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
> to check the results when it's finished - to see what that throws up?
I would concur. It is possible that 1 unreaedable sector still
means that there are years of life in the drive or it could be the
thin end of the wedge... Run a full test and post the results.
I had one drive (in a mirrored pair) that started to do that, over
a few weeks the number gradually went up and up, it went down
suddenly, then shot back up and continued to rise until I replaced
it. It never technically failed but I don't think I'd trust it
anymore.
I now run a short self test on my drives every other day.
> Leo
>
> On 15/11/13 18:10, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> >I've been getting these mails once daily for the last week - is my USB
> >HDD on the way out? I have not seen any difference from a user point
> >of view.
> >
> >It is a WD Element 1TB model, can't be more than 2 years old I think.
> >It is also a media server HDD and is on all the time, spinning up and
> >down when needed. The host is Debian 7.2
> >
> >===
> >This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
> >
> > host name: foo
> > DNS domain: bar.net
> > NIS domain: (none)
> >
> >The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
> >
> >Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> >
> >
> >For details see host's SYSLOG.
> >
> >You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
> >The original email about this issue was sent at Wed Nov 6 09:53:32 2013 GMT
> >Another email message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.
> >===
> >
> >I don't see any errors logged though:
> >
> ># smartctl -i /dev/sdc
> >smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-4-686-pae] (local build)
> >Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
> >
> >=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> >Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green
> >Device Model: WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0
> >Serial Number: WD-WCAV5N483757
> >LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2057ae091
> >Firmware Version: 01.00A01
> >User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
> >Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
> >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: Fri Nov 15 18:08:31 2013 GMT
> >SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> >SMART support is: Enabled
> >
> ># smartctl -l error /dev/sdc
> >smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-4-686-pae] (local build)
> >Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
> >
> >=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> >SMART Error Log Version: 1
> >No Errors Logged
> >
>
>
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