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I acquired an used 1Tb Western Digital hard drive and I want to check its health status under Linux Mint 18.2.
I checked its S.M.A.R.T health status and everything is reported as OK. gnome-disk
reports only one bad sector.
I ran a short test with gnome-disk
and it completed successfully.
I also tried to run a short test with smartctl
with the smartctl /dev/sdc -t short
command, and it reports a read failure (reads the command output bellow):
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.8.0-53-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8065 -
# 2 Conveyance captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 8065 -
# 3 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 8065 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8064 -
# 5 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 8064 125259637
# 6 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 8064 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8064 -
Then I tried to run an extended test with gnome-disk
, and this time it didn't complete successfully, it failed at 90%.
So I ran an extended test using smartctl
using the sudo smartctl /dev/sdc -t long -C
command, and here is the selftest log:
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.8.0-53-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 8065 -
# 2 Conveyance captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 8065 -
# 3 Extended captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 8065 -
# 4 Extended captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 8065 -
# 5 Extended captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 8065 -
# 6 Extended captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 8065 -
# 7 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 8065 -
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8065 -
# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8065 -
#10 Conveyance captive Interrupted (host reset) 90% 8065 -
#11 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 8065 -
#12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8064 -
#13 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 8064 125259637
#14 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 8064 -
#15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 8064 -
Is the hard drive still reliable? Is this failure benign? How should I read smartctl
logs in future cases?
I would highly recommend using Seagate's SeaTools software to get a definitive diagnosis on this. The reason for this is because Seagate uses SMART in a proprietary way and SeaTools is probably the only software that can properly interpret all SMART data and self-test results. Burn a bootable CD/DVD/USB-KEY from this ISO, boot your PC to SeaTools and do a full test: http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO
– misha256 – 2017-07-10T04:27:58.387