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What does "Spin up time" mean?
I just installed a Pro 6 and in it four new WD30EZRS drives. The install and build went very well however one of the four drives has a distinctly different SMART report than the others:
SMART Information for Disk 2
Model: WDC WD30EZRS-00J99B0
Serial: WD-WMAWZ0169280
Firmware: 80.00A80
SMART Attribute
Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 9058
Start Stop Count 10
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 23
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 9
Power-Off Retract Count 7
Load Cycle Count 19
Temperature Celsius 42
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0
All the other drives simply report 0 for the "Spin up time". Does anyone know what this means and the significance of this one drive having a large non-zero value? Without any other errors being reported, I presuming this drive is not reporting errors (yet) but it is presently empty.
Thanks,
Jonathan
SMART Information for Disk 2
Model: WDC WD30EZRS-00J99B0
Serial: WD-WMAWZ0169280
Firmware: 80.00A80
SMART Attribute
Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 9058
Start Stop Count 10
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 23
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 9
Power-Off Retract Count 7
Load Cycle Count 19
Temperature Celsius 42
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0
All the other drives simply report 0 for the "Spin up time". Does anyone know what this means and the significance of this one drive having a large non-zero value? Without any other errors being reported, I presuming this drive is not reporting errors (yet) but it is presently empty.
Thanks,
Jonathan
3 Replies
- The definition is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. ... attributes
Are the other drives identical? If not, perhaps they are simply not reporting it. - So this is a "reported" value rather than a setting. Since all my other drives are zero (including those in another NAS), I guess this is a peculiar characteristic of this one drive. I wonder if that slow start up will cause a problem for the ReadyNAS?
I'll probably reach out to WD to see what they say.
Thanks,
Jonathan - Well, WD was, to be kind, technically challenged by this question. In the end, I decided to RMA it and get a replacement WD30EZRS drive.
However, I received notification this morning from WD that the replacement drive will be a WD30EZRX, which is consistent with how hard it is to find sources of WD30EZRS drives.
I know that WD30EZRX isn't on the HCL but I'm boxed in on this. If Netgear knows something about this drive that should keep me from using it, I'd really appreciate hearing about it. I'm not trying to go around the HCL but I seemed to have lost control over this situation.....
Jonathan
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