<p dir="ltr">Not the only drive on the market with similiar issues. I've had countless different drives, enterprise or home.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Don't rely on it in any drive.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Past 45000 hours is when it shouldn't be in an enterprise environment anyway, unless you explicitly plan for just dealing when they fail. </p>
<p dir="ltr">65k hours is 7.4 years - that's a pretty good life for any spinning media.</p>
<p dir="ltr">/Chris</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 10 May 2016 3:43 pm, "Brad Campbell" <<a href="mailto:brad@fnarfbargle.com">brad@fnarfbargle.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Not particularly linux related, but I thought it interesting.<br>
One of my arrays has some Seagate 15k SAS drives in them, and one of those is getting on in age.<br>
<br>
Looks like the drive hour counter is 16 bit and stops when it hits the end.<br>
<br>
SMART Self-test log<br>
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]<br>
Description number (hours)<br>
# 1 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
# 2 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
# 3 Background long Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
# 4 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
# 5 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
# 6 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
# 7 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
# 8 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
# 9 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#10 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#11 Background long Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#12 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#13 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#14 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#15 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#16 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#17 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#18 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#19 Background long Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
#20 Background short Completed 16 65535 - [- - -]<br>
<br>
The other 3 drives only have about 47k on them, so they've a ways to go until they hit the end.<br>
This one had some hours on it when I got it, so it must be up around 73,000 hours now.<br>
<br>
I don't suppose there is any point reporting the bug to Seagate.<br>
<br>
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