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antlists wrote: |
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> On 06/06/2020 08:49, Dale wrote: |
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>> First drive seems to have died. Got part way copying files and |
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>> things got interesting. When checking smartctrl, it even puked on my |
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>> keyboard. Drive only had a few hundred hours on it so maybe the |
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>> drive was iffy from the start or that enclosure did damage somehow. |
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>> Either way, drive two being tested. Running smartctrl test first and |
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>> then restart from scratch and fill it up with files or something. |
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> Take it out the enclosure and it might be fine. I regularly have |
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> drives "die" in an enclosure and then work fine when I take them out. |
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> That's why I bought an open bay - it's eSATA and the only bit of the |
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> drive that is enclosed is the connectors. Keeps the drive from cooking |
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> Oh - the other thing - if it's PMR and you're copying files onto it, |
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> expect a puke! That thing on WD Reds going PMR, I copied most of that |
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> on to the linux raid mailing list and the general feeling I get is |
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> "PMR is bad". |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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I may test it later by connecting it directly to the SATA card but I |
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suspect the drive is bad. I managed to get the selftest data from the |
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drive once after several tries and it had a lot of failures. It had |
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more than one type of error as well. At this point, I don't see me |
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trusting any data on it anyway. The first type of enclosure I think is |
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just cheaply made. The new types, rock solid. |
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Read other replies, yea, SMR isn't good for my use case. I do have a |
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external drive that I do incremental backups on that is SMR. It works |
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OK but the other day I had a rather large list of new files. It got a |
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little slow toward the end. I suspect its PMR section got full. It |
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eventually finished but I did notice a slow down, a good sized one. |
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Avoiding SMR like its the plague. |
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Reading other replies, some two or three times. ;-) Lots of good |
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info. I'm wanting to encrypt /home but also want another drive that |
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when I'm gone, it is no longer accessible. A person can dd the drive or |
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something and start over but not access the data on it. Right now, the |
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3TB will be more than enough for that. |
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Thanks to all for the info. Getting new reading glasses today. Should |
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have new prescription glasses this coming week, hope anyway. Sometimes |
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it takes a while to get the lenses made. They have to use a really |
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complicated process. I think each lens costs around $200. My eyes |
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aren't much to work with. Basically, I'm more cyclops, just in the |
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right place. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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