[plug] Odd drive firmware issue

[Chris Hoy Poy]

Not the only drive on the market with similiar issues. I've had countless
different drives,  enterprise or home.

Don't rely on it in any drive.

Past 45000 hours is when it shouldn't be in an enterprise environment
anyway, unless you explicitly plan for just dealing when they fail.

65k hours is 7.4 years - that's a pretty good life for any spinning media.

/Chris
On 10 May 2016 3:43 pm, "Brad Campbell" <brad at fnarfbargle.com> wrote:

> Not particularly linux related, but I thought it interesting.
> One of my arrays has some Seagate 15k SAS drives in them, and one of those
> is getting on in age.
>
> Looks like the drive hour counter is 16 bit and stops when it hits the end.
>
> SMART Self-test log
> Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime
> LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
>      Description                              number   (hours)
> # 1  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> # 2  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> # 3  Background long   Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> # 4  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> # 5  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> # 6  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> # 7  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> # 8  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> # 9  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #10  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #11  Background long   Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #12  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #13  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #14  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #15  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #16  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #17  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #18  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #19  Background long   Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
> #20  Background short  Completed                  16   65535      - [-
>  -    -]
>
> The other 3 drives only have about 47k on them, so they've a ways to go
> until they hit the end.
> This one had some hours on it when I got it, so it must be up around
> 73,000 hours now.
>
> I don't suppose there is any point reporting the bug to Seagate.
>
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