Billy Holmes ha scritto: > Quoting "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I found your exact same symptoms, on a SATA hard disk. I frankly have >> troubles in understanding the smartctl outputs (googled of course, but > > while I think the seek time metric is mostly informational and not > really indicative of harddrive failure, my experience was different and > I'll explain why. > > * my harddrive made strange noises at times. > * it's seek time metric kept getting lower > > So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that you have to take all this > data in context.
Ok. What I did find most interesting, after some painful googling is: http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/01/08/anatomy-of-a-drive-failure It is of course anecdotical, but interesting. Basically it seems that the seek_time_performance stuff is more or less noise, at least when it oscillates. However those lines I found in his opinion seem more worrisome: Nov 21 03:52:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 253 to 252 Nov 21 04:22:23 voynich smartd[7451]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 252 to 253 what do you think about? I already have looked for a new hard drive, and tonight I will launch an extended self-test. By the way, for the new HD I found those two interesting: 1)Hard Disk 320 Gb Western Digital WD3200KS, Sata II 300, 7200 Rpm, 16 Mb Cache 2)Hard Disk Hitachi 320gb HDT725032-VLA360 S-Ata2, Ata 300,7200rpm, 16mb Cache, Rohs I always heard good about Western-Digital; the WD drive is also the least expensive so I'd choose it. However any advice is welcome. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
