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Am 08.07.2013 17:58, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman |
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>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> ST4000DM000 |
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>> As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB "Desktop" edition drives I bought |
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>> already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, both drives |
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>> have each encountered dozens of unreadable sectors so far. I was able |
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>> to correct them (force reallocation) using hdparm... So it should be |
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>> "fixed", and I'm reading that this is "normal" with newer drives and |
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>> "don't worry about it", but I'm still coming from the time when 1 bad |
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>> sector = red alert, replace the drive ASAP. I guess I will need to |
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>> monitor and see if it gets worse. |
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> Way back when in the bad old days of drives measured in 100s of megs, |
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> you'd get a few bad sectors now and then, and would have to mark them as |
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> faulty. This didn't bother us then much |
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> Nowadays we have drives that are 8,000 bigger than that so all other |
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> things being equal we'd expect sectors to fail 8,000 time more (more |
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> being a very fuzzy concept, and I know full well I'm using it loosely :-) ) |
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> Our drives nowadays also have smart firmware, something we had to |
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> introduce when CHS no longer cut it, this lead to sector failures being |
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> somewhat "invisible" leaving us with the happy delusion that drives were |
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> vastly reliable etc etc etc. But you know all this. |
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> A mere few dozen failures in the first 100 hours is a failure rate of |
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> (Alan whips out the trust sci calculator) 4.8E-6%. Pretty damn |
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> spectacular if you ask me and WELL within probabilities. |
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> There is likely nothing wrong with your drives. If they are faulty, it's |
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> highly likely a systemic manufacturing fault of the mechanicals (servo |
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> systems, motor bearing etc) |
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> You do realize that modern hard drives have for the longest time been up |
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> there in the Top X list of Most Reliable Devices Made By Mankind Ever? |
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Does it make sense to apply some sort of burn-in-procedure before |
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actually formatting and using the disks? Running badblocks or something? |
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I ask because I wait for that shiny new server and doing so might not |
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hurt before installing gentoo. Or is that too paranoid and a waste of time? |
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Thanks, greets, Stefan |
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