[mythtvnz] Hard Drive longevity (was ... Re: Happy Birthday)

[Chris Bannister]

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Yep, people *do* actually search the archives.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:49:56PM +1200, Steven Ellis wrote:
> 
> I'm starting to get nervous over the 5 year mark these days.
> 
> I had a couple of 8yr+ IDE drives that eventually died, but I'm starting
> to see drives at 5-6 years of age die regardless of power on hours.
> 
> On Thu, August 13, 2015 7:31 pm, Fraser McGlinn wrote:
> > On 13/08/15 16:53, criggie wrote:
> >> 40 GB PATA IDE drive, running root in my mythtv server, has just
> >> passed its 100,000 hours mark.
> >> That's 11.5 years of continuous service now.
> >>
> >
> > You are definately doing very well :)
> >
> > I'm not that far behind you on my WD Raptor 72GB 10K drive.
> >
> > root at gollum-v2:~#smartctl -a /dev/sde
> > smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-58-generic] (local
> > build)
> > Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
> > www.smartmontools.org
> >
> > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> > Model Family:     Western Digital Raptor
> > Device Model:     WDC WD740GD-00FLA1
> > Serial Number:    WD-WMAKE1359137
> > Firmware Version: 27.08D27
> > User Capacity:    74,355,769,344 bytes [74.3 GB]
> > Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
> > Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> > ATA Version is:   ATA/ATAPI-6 (minor revision not indicated)
> > Local Time is:    Thu Aug 13 19:30:06 2015 NZST
> > SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> > SMART support is: Enabled
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
> > Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> > UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
> >   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   200   200   051    Pre-fail
> > Always       -       0
> >   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   105   105   021    Pre-fail
> > Always       -       5275
> >   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   040    Old_age
> > Always       -       190
> >   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   176   176   140    Pre-fail
> > Always       -       374
> >   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   253   051    Pre-fail
> > Always       -       0
> >   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age
> > Always       -       91584
> >  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   051    Pre-fail
> > Always       -       0
> >  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013   100   100   051    Pre-fail
> > Always       -       0
> >  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> > Always       -       189
> > 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   111   104   000    Old_age
> > Always       -       39
> > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   117   117   000    Old_age
> > Always       -       83
> > 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age
> > Always       -       0
> > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age
> > Always       -       0
> > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   253   000    Old_age
> > Always       -       0
> > 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   200   179   051    Pre-fail
> > Offline      -       0

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