Western Digital Black WD1002FAEX Health bad

[Shambles1980]

Ye gods, NO. Look at the "Valor Bruto" column. The values in the other columns are values, not the data itself. You could see them as scores. But Valor Bruto is the actual data, if it says 00000000000 it means 0. If the drive had just 1 reallocated sector that program would throw up a warning (or a yellow light).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

we have looked at the pics. told him there are no errors. said the drive is fine lol..
I think its time to stop giving him the real answer and just tell him what he wants to hear.

 

[cgentil]

Folks,

Checked in HD Tune Pro, and 1st setting differs...

Check it out please.

http://gyazo.com/f99f89abe0c3278e9e1d3dc97f38dca8.png

 

[Shambles1980]

we need a face palm icon

 

[Frick]

Folks,

Checked in HD Tune Pro, and 1st setting differs...

Check it out please.

http://gyazo.com/f99f89abe0c3278e9e1d3dc97f38dca8.png

(Vendor specific raw value.) Stores data related to the rate of hardware read errors that occurred when reading data from a disk surface. The raw value has different structure for different vendors and is often not meaningful as a decimal number.

The raw value (xxxxxxxxx) for the Read Error Rate attribute is actually a sector count, not an error count. This count rolls over to zero after 250000000. The normalised value of the attribute is logarithmic and is calculated according to some proprietary formula.

Which means... It doesn't mean anything meaninful, unless you work for WD I assume. Drop it. It's fine.

 

[cgentil]

Thanks.

 

[Aquinus]

Which means... It doesn't mean anything meaninful, unless you work for WD I assume. Drop it. It's fine.

Error rates are instantaneous values iirc, not averages. They change over time. Small numbers in these fields aren't uncommon with working drives.

Folks,

Checked in HD Tune Pro, and 1st setting differs...

Check it out please.

http://gyazo.com/f99f89abe0c3278e9e1d3dc97f38dca8.png

If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. Your drive is fine!

If you don't believe me, look at my FAEX drive's values. They're all fine and look similar to yours.


I would like to think I know what I'm talking about having been a sysadmin and the fact I have 4 of the same model drive as you where 2 have failed in the past. I would like to think I know what the warning signs are and are not.

 

[cgentil]

If you are in doubt about the health of a given HDD, there is always the option of running the extended self-test (a test actually built-in in the drive itself, which will test the surface, mechanics and whatnot) via smartctl, or GSmartControl if you prefer a GUI for running and monitoring these tests. A better option than running HDD Regenerator and rest of supposedly miraculous scamwares. If I were you, I would run one extended self-test per week / 2 weeks. And of course, backup of critical stuff is crucial. On addition of that, I personally always create par2 files (MultiPar is the client I run and I have cmd files to create recurrently and unattendedly par2 of any folder in a tree folder) of the most important files, as an additional security measure to make sure that any eventual silent data corruption can be detected and repaired.

Highlighted the most three important attributes for WD discs. No reallocated sectors, spin-up time is good and raw read error rate is excellent. Current value mustn't be lower than the threshold, ever. Rest of "secondary" attributes are OK, such as no CRC errors due to faulty cabling.

Testing with GSmartControl.

Check:

http://gyazo.com/50fe15fee20d4320d60839f3669cafbb.png

Says pre-failure!!!!

 

[Hellfire]

Just STOP.

You've tested it with software we told you to use and its fine.

STOP Trying to find problems where non exist.

 

[Aquinus]

Testing with GSmartControl.

Check:

http://gyazo.com/50fe15fee20d4320d60839f3669cafbb.png

Says pre-failure!!!!

Your drive is fine. Stop obsessing about it, it's bad for your health and everyone reading this thread. SMART data isn't changing and I've told you after looking at the raw data that it's fine... Stop asking and leave it alone.

 

[ReadD8]

Says pre-failure!!!!

Pre-failure just means that attribute is more critical than others (remember the three ones I highlighteed) and a failure for these ones is covered officially by the warrany and the hard disk maybe will crash eventually if the Norm-ed value is lower than the threshold. When you are running GSmartControl and you don't understand what means certain thing, just hover the cursor into that thing and read the contextual help.

Alarm condition is reached when if normalized value becomes less than or equal to threshold. Type indicates whether it's a signal of drive's pre-failure time or just an old age.

Regarding Updated column. For example, for WD discs attributes 198 and 200 (decimal) are updated during offline data collection.

The attribute is usually updated continuously, or during Offline Data Collection only. This column indicates that.

Offline Data Collection (a.k.a. Offline test) is usually automatically performed when the device is idle or every fixed amount of time. This should show if Automatic Offline Data Collection is enabled.

Too bad that near only smartctl (the back-end behind GSmartControl) can report which attributes are considered by the HDD manufacturer pre-failure, old age, show the S.M.A.R.T.'s error log, see the self-test logs and perform the self-tests.