High SMART Values - Seagate Says It's Normal
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I had purchased a HDD from seagate and it had read failures in the millions within a week of use. I called in to get it RMA'd, the tech told me it was normal with seagate drive and to ignore the SMART numbers. I insisted on a replacement and I just got it today. I installed the HDD and currently have 48472 read errors, 550 write errors, 15938623635456 head flying hours??
The read errors is steady but If I begin a copy from one of my other TB drives the write errors increase at a rate of about 1 per 2 seconds. The "head flying hours" increases at ridiculous speeds.
So IS this actually normal? Should I just ignore the smart as seagate suggested. This seems pretty ridiculous.
The read errors is steady but If I begin a copy from one of my other TB drives the write errors increase at a rate of about 1 per 2 seconds. The "head flying hours" increases at ridiculous speeds.
So IS this actually normal? Should I just ignore the smart as seagate suggested. This seems pretty ridiculous.
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@xGhost4000x, the raw values of the Read Error Rate attribute are sector counts, not error counts. Ditto for the Seek Error Rate.
See http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/Seagate_SER_RRER_H...
In fact, I recently discovered that SandForce SF-2000 SSDs have very similar error rate attributes:
http://hddguardian.googlecode.com/svn/docs/Kingston%20S...
As for the Head Flying Hours, the raw value is best viewed in hexadecimal mode:
15938623635456 = 0xe7f00000000
I believe that the actual number of flying hours is stored in the lower 32-bits (= 4 bytes). In your case this value is zero (= 0x00000000).
See http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/Seagate_SER_RRER_H...
In fact, I recently discovered that SandForce SF-2000 SSDs have very similar error rate attributes:
http://hddguardian.googlecode.com/svn/docs/Kingston%20S...
As for the Head Flying Hours, the raw value is best viewed in hexadecimal mode:
15938623635456 = 0xe7f00000000
I believe that the actual number of flying hours is stored in the lower 32-bits (= 4 bytes). In your case this value is zero (= 0x00000000).
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