And so I’ve spent days and days, prolly weeks, to get rid some of the problems I faced in my FreeBSD. Currently running on version 8.0-RELEASE, I’ve upgraded almost all of my installed ports, and get my usb stick to work with the new usb stack. Everything works wonderful, stable and I’m a happy user.
Happy eh?
At least I thought so.
Today it crossed my mind to check how my hard disks are doing and to my surprise, one of the report came back with a failure alert:
# smartctl -d ata -A /dev/ad4
smartctl version 5.38 [amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
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 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always – 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 165 164 021 Pre-fail Always – 4741
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 211
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 065 065 140 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 1080
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000e 200 197 051 Old_age Always – 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 085 085 000 Old_age Always – 11344
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age Always – 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age Always – 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 209
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 193 193 000 Old_age Always – 5447
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always – 1227719
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 097 092 000 Old_age Always – 50
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 101 101 000 Old_age Always – 99
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age Offline – 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 051 Old_age Offline – 0
And this makes my heart races even faster:
# smartctl -H /dev/ad4
smartctl version 5.38 [amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
Failed Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 065 065 140 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 1080
Less than 24 hours? And I happened to be damn lucky to check on my disks today? Since day one I bought the hard disks, I’ve never really checked on it. Today I did, and I got this. Am seriously hoping that it’s just a false alarm (still am gonna do my backups).
And that is my around-2yo WD hard disk. My second WD hard disk. My first WD hard disk failed on me after running for less than a year. Jinx? Lol. Wait. This is not funny! Hmmmpphhhhhhhh..
Anyway, am too frustrated now. My hands are cold, my feet are cold, and all I could think of right now is doing a backup so that I could port my old system to a new hard disk. Which I have to buy..
Speaking of which.. another WD? Seriously I don’t know. Everyone is saying WD is the best, yet 2 of them died (well this one hasn’t died yet but already complaining) fast enough. Maxtor served me for a good 5 years or more, but the reputation isn’t that great either compared to other brands. Suggestion?