serpro69 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Wanted to ask if someone can help me understand how to read these reports. It says "good health" on all of them, but still would like to understand if there are any potential issues with these drives, and what to look for in these reports overall. Spoiler Particularly, 'read error rate', 'spin up time', 'seek error rate' . Do they look OK? Some say to only look at '* Sector Count' items (05, C5, C6 ? ), others mention the above three as "critical" attributes as well. I'm confused whom to believe and whether any of these reports should raise some red flags for me. Serenity -> Dell Precision 7560Millenium Falcon -> Dell Precision 5530Axiom -> Lenovo ThinkPad P52 (work)Moldy Crow -> Dell XPS 15 9550 Spoiler Millenium Falcon: Dell Precision 5530 i9-8950HK CPU 2x16 GB DDR4 2,666 MHz 1 TB SSD NVIDIA Quadro P2000 UHD 3840 x 2160 Ubuntu 20.04 / Windows 10 LTSCAxiom: Lenovo ThinkPad P52 i7-8850H 2x32 GB DDR4 1 TB SSD NVIDIA Quadro P2000 UHD 3840x2160 Windows 10 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etern4l Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 2 hours ago, serpro69 said: Wanted to ask if someone can help me understand how to read these reports. It says "good health" on all of them, but still would like to understand if there are any potential issues with these drives, and what to look for in these reports overall. Reveal hidden contents Particularly, 'read error rate', 'spin up time', 'seek error rate' . Do they look OK? Some say to only look at '* Sector Count' items (05, C5, C6 ? ), others mention the above three as "critical" attributes as well. I'm confused whom to believe and whether any of these reports should raise some red flags for me. Common sense would dictate that if error rate > 0 then replace the drive immediately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpro69 Posted November 16, 2022 Author Share Posted November 16, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, Etern4l said: Common sense would dictate that if error rate > 0 then replace the drive immediately. That would be my thought as well. But I've read a number of posts where people say "ignore them unless something else critical shows abnormal", especially on Seagate drives. The reason I'm asking is I'm considering buying some used drives to use for backups, but these error counts are kind of making we wary. EDIT: here are some interesting reads for anyone interested in this topic: - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/ - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/ - https://www.backblaze.com/blog-smart-stats-2014-8.html#S1N EDIT 2: here several members of /r/datahoarder suggest that read/seek error counts don't mean much generally: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/61pmsb/just_got_a_seagate_ironwolf_are_these_smart/ Edited November 16, 2022 by serpro69 add some blog posts, links Serenity -> Dell Precision 7560Millenium Falcon -> Dell Precision 5530Axiom -> Lenovo ThinkPad P52 (work)Moldy Crow -> Dell XPS 15 9550 Spoiler Millenium Falcon: Dell Precision 5530 i9-8950HK CPU 2x16 GB DDR4 2,666 MHz 1 TB SSD NVIDIA Quadro P2000 UHD 3840 x 2160 Ubuntu 20.04 / Windows 10 LTSCAxiom: Lenovo ThinkPad P52 i7-8850H 2x32 GB DDR4 1 TB SSD NVIDIA Quadro P2000 UHD 3840x2160 Windows 10 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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