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fastfwd
Oct 15, 2013Virtuoso
WD Red drives park their heads like WD Green drives?
So I checked the SMART stats on my new 4TB Red drive (WD40EFRX) today. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that in only 249 power-on hours it has already experienced 36820 load/unload cycles! Me...
portucale
Mar 11, 2014Aspirant
Good news everyone!!!
I just bought 2 WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 and after reading the reported problem because of LLC 8 seconds, i decided to check the default disk values.
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL!
WD changed the value from 8 to 300 seconds because of YOUR CLAIMS, giving you reason!
(just to mention that the disk date is january 2014)
Entering in ssh ReadyNAS102 i run ....
et voilá
if someone want's more info's about my disks, fill free to ask! it's possible that other value have been changed...
Meanwhile here is the result of running smartctl -a /dev/sda
I just bought 2 WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 and after reading the reported problem because of LLC 8 seconds, i decided to check the default disk values.
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL!
WD changed the value from 8 to 300 seconds because of YOUR CLAIMS, giving you reason!
(just to mention that the disk date is january 2014)
Entering in ssh ReadyNAS102 i run ....
root@HOME_NAS:/# hdparm -J /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
wdidle3 = 300 secs (or 13.8 secs for older drives)
et voilá
if someone want's more info's about my disks, fill free to ask! it's possible that other value have been changed...
Meanwhile here is the result of running smartctl -a /dev/sda
root@HOME_NAS:/# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [armv7l-linux-3.0.101.RN_ARM.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Red (AF)
Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Serial Number: ???????
LU WWN Device Id: ????????
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Tue Mar 11 22:25:41 2014 WET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (44220) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 443) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x703d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
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 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 253 021 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 121 000 Old_age Always - 29
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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