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On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:49:56PM +1200, Steven Ellis wrote:
>
> I'm starting to get nervous over the 5 year mark these days.
>
> I had a couple of 8yr+ IDE drives that eventually died, but I'm starting
> to see drives at 5-6 years of age die regardless of power on hours.
>
> On Thu, August 13, 2015 7:31 pm, Fraser McGlinn wrote:
> > On 13/08/15 16:53, criggie wrote:
> >> 40 GB PATA IDE drive, running root in my mythtv server, has just
> >> passed its 100,000 hours mark.
> >> That's 11.5 years of continuous service now.
> >>
> >
> > You are definately doing very well :)
> >
> > I'm not that far behind you on my WD Raptor 72GB 10K drive.
> >
> > root@gollum-v2:~#smartctl -a /dev/sde
> > smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-58-generic] (local
> > build)
> > Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
> > www.smartmontools.org
> >
> > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> > Model Family: Western Digital Raptor
> > Device Model: WDC WD740GD-00FLA1
> > Serial Number: WD-WMAKE1359137
> > Firmware Version: 27.08D27
> > User Capacity: 74,355,769,344 bytes [74.3 GB]
> > Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
> > Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> > ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-6 (minor revision not indicated)
> > Local Time is: Thu Aug 13 19:30:06 2015 NZST
> > SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> > SMART support is: Enabled
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > 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 0x000b 200 200 051 Pre-fail
> > Always - 0
> > 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 105 105 021 Pre-fail
> > Always - 5275
> > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 040 Old_age
> > Always - 190
> > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 176 176 140 Pre-fail
> > Always - 374
> > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 253 051 Pre-fail
> > Always - 0
> > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age
> > Always - 91584
> > 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail
> > Always - 0
> > 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail
> > Always - 0
> > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
> > Always - 189
> > 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 111 104 000 Old_age
> > Always - 39
> > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 117 117 000 Old_age
> > Always - 83
> > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age
> > Always - 0
> > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age
> > Always - 0
> > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 253 000 Old_age
> > Always - 0
> > 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 179 051 Pre-fail
> > Offline - 0

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