At 08:56 AM 29/06/2012, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
On 6/28/2012 10:17 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 10:30 AM 28/06/2012, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Is this still the best tool to bless a new HD before putting it into use?
I bought an external Seagate 3TB, 7000rpm drive off amazon for
$130. The thing has horrible reviews. It ran really hot inside
the enclosure. I popped it out and have it in my system were it
seems fine over the pass 3 days. The thing seem so to run way
faster than my 1TB WD Black, so I'm thinking of getting another
for my data drive (I've getting too friggin many 1TB drives around
here now). The one I'm testing now with Bart is going in my movie
box. I'll let Bart finish the read before moving it over. Temps
seem to be between 89 and 93 Deg F.
I still use BST for 24-48 hours and then monitor the SMART
attributes for initial tests of hard drives. Temperatures appear to be good.
T
How do you monitor SMART attributes? I mean, what do you look for?
Caution or red flags in crystaldiskinfo? I'm all blue now. Temp is
91F. I'm over 1-day on BST now.
I monitor attributes:
1 - Raw_Read_Error_Rate
10 - Spin_Retry_Count
11 - Calibration_Retry_Count
190 - Air Flow Temp
191 - G-Sense_Error_Rate
194 - Temperature_Celsius
195 - Hardware_ECC_Recovered
196 - Reallocated_Event_Count
197 - Current_Pending_Sector
198 - Offline_Uncorrectable
199 - UDMA_CRC_Error_Count
200 - Multi_Zone_Error_Rate
201 - Soft_Read_Error_Rate
220 - Disk_Shift
221 - G-Sense_Error_Rate
3 - Spin_Up_Time
5 - Reallocated_Sector_Ct
7 - Seek_Error_Rate
You will find there are current, worst and raw numbers showing. It
depends on the drive, and how much you care, but raw numbers are
generally less important. Current and worst tick down towards a
"warranty" number while raw goes up. I'm *very* picky about my
drives, so I replace long before they get close to warranty numbers.
T
