From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 01:30:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16390e38-8418-67ee-85b4-d8f63260980a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47223065.fMDQidcC6G@rogueboard>
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Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 12 May 2025 09:11:54 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking about adding this to my backup drive set. With this
>> addition, I can have one backup for all my videos instead of breaking it
>> into two pieces.
>>
>> Any concerns with the data you see? Would you be OK using this drive?
> I don't want to say go ahead, only for the drive to fail when you come to rely
> on it. Knowing it's a refurbished drive, it takes time to spin up, but shows
> no errors, I would use it in a non-critical operational setup and keep an eye
> on it for a while, but that's just me. I've had drives with critical errors
> on them and have been waiting for them to fail for years now. I'm still
> waiting ... ;-)
>
I use this command to check the important stuff.
smartctl -a /dev/sdX | egrep
'(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_Ct|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sector|Offline_Uncorrectable)'
Just replace the X with correct drive device. For the 20TB drive, that
shows this.
root@Gentoo-1 / # smartctl -a /dev/sdb | egrep
'(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_Ct|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sector|Offline_Uncorrectable)'
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail
Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 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
root@Gentoo-1 / #
From what I've read, when those show zeros, it is a good drive.
I'm going to do some more testing first but I think this drive is OK.
To be honest, I can't tell that in connects any slower than any other
drive, regardless of size or age. I tend to give a hard drive, or set
of hard drives for LVM setups, at least a minute to spin up and connect
before I try to mount them anyway. If the drive does take a few extra
seconds to connect at full speed, I'll never notice it in real world use
even if the kernel does.
Now to tackle that 8TB SMR drive. I think it is sick, or something. I
don't like that drive anyway. LOL
Dale
:-) :-)
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-05 21:15 [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem Dale
2025-05-06 12:12 ` Michael
2025-05-06 12:59 ` Dale
2025-05-06 14:31 ` Michael
2025-05-06 20:51 ` Dale
2025-05-06 23:08 ` Wol
2025-05-07 0:16 ` Dale
2025-05-06 23:30 ` Dale
2025-05-07 8:18 ` Michael
2025-05-07 15:13 ` Dale
2025-05-10 15:53 ` Dale
2025-05-10 18:52 ` Michael
2025-05-12 8:11 ` Dale
2025-05-12 11:14 ` Michael
2025-05-13 6:30 ` Dale [this message]
2025-05-12 22:34 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-05-13 6:05 ` Dale
2025-05-13 8:30 ` Michael
2025-05-30 13:46 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-05-30 1:25 ` Dale
2025-05-30 10:56 ` Michael
2025-05-30 13:47 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-05-30 15:10 ` Michael
2025-05-30 21:06 ` Dale
2025-05-31 8:21 ` Michael
2025-06-01 2:51 ` Dale
2025-06-01 11:02 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-06-01 12:20 ` Dale
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