Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

[Ian Bloss]

I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would
recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand.

I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for their
failure rate.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:41 Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:

> On 19/12/15 08:01, Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I finally got a new 3TB hard drive.  I got one on sale for under $100.
> > Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
> > basic as it is.  A little bit ago, I noticed a sound.  It's not a click
> > or a metallic type sound.  It sounds like the heads are doing random
> > reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily.  Thing is,
> > there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop.  All the
> > drives should be basically idle.  I even went to single user mode to be
> > sure nothing in KDE was doing some index thingy or something.  Still,
> > nothing showed that there should be any drive activity, including the
> > hard drive light on the case.
> >
> > Also, I do not know WHICH drive is making this noise yet.  I have four
> > in there running and they are physically mounted close together.  I'm
> > not sure I would know which one it is even if I take the side off the
> > case.  I just know that it is making this odd noise.  Here is some info
> > from hdparm:
> >
> >
> > root@fireball / # hdparm -i /dev/sdd
> >
> > /dev/sdd:
> >
> >  Model=ST3000DM001-1ER166, FwRev=CC25, SerialNo=Z501R198
> >  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
> >  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
> >  BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
> >  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=5860533168
> >  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> >  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> >  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> >  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
> >  AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
> >  Drive conforms to: Reserved:  ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
> >
> >  * signifies the current active mode
> >
> > root@fireball / #
> >
> >
> > That's the new drive up above.  Old drive that is basically the same
> > drive, different batch I would assume, is below.
> >
> >
> > root@fireball / # hdparm -i /dev/sdc
> >
> > /dev/sdc:
> >
> >  Model=ST3000DM001-1CH166, FwRev=CC29, SerialNo=W1F4C31Q
> >  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
> >  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
> >  BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> >  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=5860533168
> >  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> >  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> >  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> >  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
> >  AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
> >  Drive conforms to: Reserved:  ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
> >
> >  * signifies the current active mode
> >
> > root@fireball / #
> >
> >
> > The last SMART test I ran showed no problems but I have a fresh one
> > running as I type on all drives.  Will update if it shows anything.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
> >
> >
>
> Mechanics trick - place a largish screwdriver end on each hard drive
> case in turn and the handle end to your ear.  You can hear difference in
> sound quite clearly.
>
> BillK
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