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Hello, |
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: |
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>David Haller wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: |
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>> Yeah. Oh, and I had a "clean" smart until a few days ago, luckily I |
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>> alread had a WD Red (WD40EFRX) drive waiting when this attrib jumped |
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>> from 0 to: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 087 087 036 Pre-fail Always |
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>> 17688 Other Seagates (a few 1.5T drives) have also made me trouble, |
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>> the 2T Samsung already relabeled and sold as a Seagate but with |
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>> Samsung in the FW though is still ok. [..] |
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>I was wondering about how that would be updated since a lot of that |
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>stuff requires windoze. |
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I had the "fun" with a couple of those 2TB Samsung drives a while ago |
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(Jan 2012?). Samsung had some .iso files available, which you could |
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write to a CD/DVD/USB-Shtik, and then boot from them. For me, the |
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biggest problem was _which_ of the 4 HD204UI and 2 HD203WI I had and |
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have needed the update... I don't remember the SW displaying serial |
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numbers... *gah* Anyway, I've got it sorted out and updated those that |
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needed the update. With Seagate/WD/HGST/Toshiba I've no experience. |
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And I still am grumpy about Samsung selling off their HDD stuff to |
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Seagate. |
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BTW: in german, we have a saying for Seagate drives: "sie geht oder |
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sie geht nicht", basically spoken as "sea gate odr sea gate nicht" |
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meaning "she works or she won't"... But, talk about IBM "deathstars", |
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and WD has also a record, basically, all HDDs are much alike nowadays, |
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and have been for years. There's always a bad batch somewhere ... |
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Seagate: Seagate drives (???), ex-Maxtor drives, ex-Samsung drives |
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WD: bought Hitachi GST (formerly IBM), i.e. WD + ex-IBM/HGST drives |
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Toshiba: new player, no warranty for bulk drives, unknown for the desktop |
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I miss the days when you still had a real choice (WD, Seagate, Maxtor, |
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Samsung, IBM, and smaller/specialized stuff (Excelstor, Toshiba for |
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Laptop drives))... |
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If Seagate would at least label their former Samsung drives in a |
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recognizable manner (say, ST*DS* vs. ST*DM* or keep the Samsung label |
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or whatever), I'd be a happy bunny, but as of now, that failing |
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ST3000DM001 was the last Seagate I've bought for quite some time. |
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Oh, and I've got a second ST3000DM001 used externally, with stuff that |
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can get lost, but it'd be inconvenient. And yes, I'm planning on |
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ordering a replacement ASAP (another WD40EFRX). Just in case. And the |
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steady state of my discs is full anyway ... |
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# dfall -t ext3 -t ext4 -h |
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[..] |
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14.6T 13.2T 996.4G 90% |
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and that's just because item one: /dev/sda is taken up by a 128G |
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Samsung 830 SSD, and item two: I just swapped in that 4TB WD for the |
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failing Seagate 3TB. (and yes, I use ext{3,4} exclusively on disk), |
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there's another ~10 TiB in the "fileserver" on 11 disks and a few |
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naked drives (and a docking station (Sharkoon QuickDeck)) and an |
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external drive ;) |
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>>> I ordered a drive. It should be here tomorrow. In the meantime, I |
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>>> shutdown and re-seated all the cables, power too. I got the test running |
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>>> again but results is a few hours off yet. It did pass the short test |
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>>> tho. I'm not sure that it means much. |
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>> Good. Do not use dd, it WILL fail at the first error. Use gnu ddrescue |
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>> or dd_rescue to grab an image. I used mc to copy via filesystem, eg. |
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>> 'rsync -auxlPRAXSHD /foo/ /bar/' is fine too. Oh, and I hope you |
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>> didn't buy a Seagate again ;) |
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BTW: *GRR* for you buying a ST3000DM001 again |
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>I plan to rsync or cp the data over. |
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Good plan. |
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>The dd part will come into play after I am sure I got everything off |
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>that I can get and am just erasing the drive completely. I plan to dd |
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>the drive then run the tests again just to see what it is doing. |
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>Heck, maybe it will reallocate that area like it should be doing |
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>already, I guess. |
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Reallocation happens on writes ... Look for --write-sector in 'man |
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hdparm'. |
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I've been doing that "smartctl -t .." / hdparm --write-sector ... |
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stuff for a bunch of sectors but got tired of that game. And you |
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having 104 pending sectors? *gah* That'll get tedious. Probably using |
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'ddrescue /dev/zero /dev/sdX sdX.log' would be easier. That way, after |
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you got whatever data you can rescue from that drive, you can clear |
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the drive too before sending it in for a warranty replacement (if |
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still applicable). |
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>Time will tell. I'll be having fun tomorrow tho. ;-) |
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Do have fun, after you got your data off that drive :) |
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-dnh |
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Gibt es ein Buch über das maßvolle Verwenden von Fußnoten? |
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Wenn ja, dann bin ich bereit, Dir ein Exemplar zu schicken. |
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[Thorsten Haude zu David Haller in sl-etikette] |
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