SMART Test

[blue1248]

Good afternoon Community,

I am attempting to become familiar with the SMART tools and I am running SMART tests on the drives that I am hoping to re-use in my FreeNAS installation.

I am watching ID's 5, 197, 198, 199. Also 194 Temperature- in which all disks seems to sit comfortably between 23 - 27C approx.

All have tested ok except for one.

I am performing the Long Test (smartctl -t long /dev/sdc) on my Win10 machine where it is currently installed. It keeps aborting at 90% remaining. (see below)

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11989 -
# 2 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 11981 -
# 3 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 11969 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11874 -

What are possible causes for it to Abort? Is the drive developing a fault?

Also, the tests tell me that a firmware update is available for my drives. I have downloaded the firmware update and read installation instructions which seem simple enough. My question is, is this one of those times that you should update no problem... or is it one of those times where you leave it unless you ABSOLUTELY have to.

Thank you.

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results of the most recent Short test.
C:\Windows\system32>smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-win10] (sf-6.5-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166
Serial Number: W1F0QQHQ
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 05265fc23
Firmware Version: CC4B
User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Wed Mar 08 14:54:03 2017 AUSEDT

==> WARNING: A firmware update for this drive may be available,
see the following Seagate web pages:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223651en

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 584) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 341) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3085) SCT Status supported.

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 120 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 731624
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 092 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 020 Old_age Always - 2242
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 075 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 38916354
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 11989
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age Always - 1961
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 0 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 074 059 045 Old_age Always - 26 (Min/Max 17/33)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1587
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 079 079 000 Old_age Always - 43604
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 026 041 000 Old_age Always - 26 (0 8 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 8742h+50m+14.314s
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 86762206927124
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 49884768245770

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11989 -
# 2 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 11981 -
# 3 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 11969 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11874 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

 

[JohnDigital]

How long are you letting this test run? A long test takes as few as 5 hours and as long as 12 hours. Are you aborting the test prematurely by shutting down or something? Normally if there is an error, it will say cant finish due to read error or something of the sort.

12000 power on hours is only 1.5 years roughly, is it under warranty? If you really want a better idea if these drives are going to be ok to use, you should consider running a badblocks test on all of them. The test will destroy the data on the drives so if there is data on it DO NOT RUN BADBLOCKS. If you are ok with going forward and losing the data, if any, there are numerous drive burn in guides on this forum to follow, SMART is a good start but far from the only thing you should do before moving to "production".

 

[JohnDigital]

Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 341) minutes.

This is almost 6 hours. With interruptions to the test (disk activity) it could take considerably longer.

 

[blue1248]

Hello John Digital

I am starting these tests just before going to bed for the night and then checking them in the morning some 8 or 9 hours later. So the tests are running uninterrupted by humans.

All programs and apps are shutdown. It is just Win10 running.

I purchased this particular hard drive in 2011.

I understand BadBlocks testing is destructive. Is there a version of Badblocks I can run on a Win10 machine, or is it solely run from FreeNAS. Would the Windows equivalent be chkdsk /r?

----Edit---
I should also mention my FreeNAS system is still in the design stage.

 

[JohnDigital]

I have noticed in the past that the last 10% of testing takes awhile, the fact that its saying aborted by host and doesnt say anything about an error makes me suspect a windows snafu. Try a linux live gparted distro just to be safe. Let it run a couple more hours just to be sure.