Michael wrote: > On Monday, 12 May 2025 09:11:54 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> I'm thinking about adding this to my backup drive set. With this >> addition, I can have one backup for all my videos instead of breaking it >> into two pieces. >> >> Any concerns with the data you see? Would you be OK using this drive? > I don't want to say go ahead, only for the drive to fail when you come to > rely > on it. Knowing it's a refurbished drive, it takes time to spin up, but shows > no errors, I would use it in a non-critical operational setup and keep an eye > on it for a while, but that's just me. I've had drives with critical errors > on them and have been waiting for them to fail for years now. I'm still > waiting ... ;-) >
I use this command to check the important stuff. smartctl -a /dev/sdX | egrep '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_Ct|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sector|Offline_Uncorrectable)' Just replace the X with correct drive device. For the 20TB drive, that shows this. root@Gentoo-1 / # smartctl -a /dev/sdb | egrep '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_Ct|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sector|Offline_Uncorrectable)' ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 0 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 root@Gentoo-1 / # >From what I've read, when those show zeros, it is a good drive. I'm going to do some more testing first but I think this drive is OK. To be honest, I can't tell that in connects any slower than any other drive, regardless of size or age. I tend to give a hard drive, or set of hard drives for LVM setups, at least a minute to spin up and connect before I try to mount them anyway. If the drive does take a few extra seconds to connect at full speed, I'll never notice it in real world use even if the kernel does. Now to tackle that 8TB SMR drive. I think it is sick, or something. I don't like that drive anyway. LOL Dale :-) :-)
