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Smartmontools report - Is hard disk failed and will broken soon?
Hello everyone,
I have a hard disk report by smartmontool as below. I did not have exp about smartmontools before. Could anyone help me to answer:
- Is it power on 60k hours ~ 6 years 9 months
- Will it broken soon?
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 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 253 253 021 Pre-fail Always - 1116
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 219
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 018 018 000 Old_age Always - 60217
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 216
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 190
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 219
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 119 077 000 Old_age Always - 31
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
Disk info
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital RE3 Serial ATA
Device Model: WDC WD1002FBYS-18A6B0
Serial Number: WD-WMATV2769989
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 056d533d9
Add. Product Id: DELL▒
Firmware Version: 03.00C06
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 2.5, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Tue Jul 25 04:34:42 2017 GMT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Comments
That disk looks healthier than me. Not a single issue shown there, which is really weird for a almost 7 year old HDD. Most likely it was idle most of its life or it's used as a regular desktop PC HDD.
No one can tell you if it breaks soon or not. Truth is all those "RE" drives are designed to run 24/7 with higher r/w-load. Smart-status looks well but drive might fail anyway (happened to me a few times). Personally I would not use ~7 years old drive for anything else but secondary backup...
Maybe this helps https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/93554/trying-to-understand-smartctl
Hello,
If VALUE=TRESH (or below) the drive is sick.
The more VALUE differs from WORST the worst it is.
Your disk seems to be healthy BUT i would also not use a 6 years drive.
I'm not sure this is correct. From what I understand:
value is current value for given parameter
worst is the worst value ever recorded on the disk
For some parameters (typically those cumulative, i.e. number of reallocated sectors) "value" can hardly be different from "worst", because every change in this parameter means we have new "worst" value too.
For others it is quite good if "current" is different from "worst" (if possible), because anything else from "worst" must be "better". For example, sometimes in the past higher temperature has been recorded than now (those values are normalised, so "077" means higher temperature then current "119")...
Yes i should have said:
VALUE should be different from WORST and far from THRESH.
Your drive is fine. Just make sure you keep backups. I have had drives break in 2 months and have some that are 8yrs old still going fine.
I've read a few statistics, from Google mostly, that say that the majority of drives die in the first weeks of life OR at around 4-5 years. Those that survive after 5 years are very reliable and supposed to live a lot more, because it means that they come from a very good production batch.
Therefore, I would not change a 7 year old drive if it works fine and I wouldn't be more scared than using a brand new one...
My laptop hard drive died within that time frame, so I'd say that's accurate, well didn't due but started failing
SMART info is less than intelligent and very rarely can signal a drive failure before other more obvious symptoms occur. To predict drive health, I find it to be useless. After a drive starts failing, yes it will confirm that things are going south, but that's too little too late.
That said, 6 years spinning is longer than usual for heavy-use disks. I'll echo what so many others have said here - don't trust this disk and replace it for anything critical.
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That'll be desktop grade drives.
Enterprise grade drives tend to live much longer. We have bunch of Seagate es.3 drives running, and 2TB drives only one ever failed, no 3TB or 4TB drives failed so far. They can easily last to 5+ years (which is the warranty period).
I won't be too worry about it, but keeping a backup copy is always good. Replacing it right away is also a reasonable option -- you don't have to wait until it fails.
SMART by itself will not usually predict anything, but all the info it containts is often usefull and can help to notice that drive is about to fail before it is completely dead and data is lost. Reallocated sectors, spinup retries, etc, once they appear, are clear signs that drive has to be replaced, while in most cases (excluding sudden mechanical failure) drive is still perfectly functional and no data is lost. I've seen hdd-s with like ~2500 reallocated sectors which were still working, but marked as "predicted failure" by raid card, which was certainly correct prediction.
In case of this drive, as everyone else said, there are no signs of failure in SMART data, but it is old... personally i would be fine with using it as a part of raid array, but as single drive, especially for something important - defenitely no.