I have this and a 500GB HDD 7,200RPM ST500LM21-1KJ152 in LVM RAID1 and after I added a ~15GB QCOW2 image to it it had a SMART Health Status of “24 bad sectors” even though they were “Current Pending Sectors”. As seen below…
Is it likely this HGST drive is gonna bite the dusts and I should be looking at getting another used drive off of E-Bay to replace it (I don’t want to buy a new drive if I can avoids it for eco friendliness reasons)? Or it fair to assume it’s will normally functions generally speaking if this is the only thing it’s complaining about?
I am also doing a extended SMART test on it right now as well. To see if there are updated results on it as well.
Don’t trust it with any data, run badblocks and see if the number goes up. In any case, get a new HDD, trash the old one if it throws more errors after checking.
I didn’t even let me check even running the long test twice so yea I am considering where I can get a refurb unit for around 20 bucks or less (around 25 bucks total I am hoping to reach after shipping fees).
Microcenter doesn’t carries any (only 5700RPM units which I don’t trust the 5kRPM devices), flipping ServerMonkey charges shipping by the absolute LBs so it’s $14.95 or what not even to get a 20 dollars drive…
I am trying to see if PCLiquidations can help me and if that doesn’t goes far I might need to look on E-Bay.
Running badblocks tool and a long smartmontools test and examine the output is my recommendation. My experience is that both are not always showing the same results. “Modern” hard disks try to deal with bad sectors magically, until a limit is reached. If you are getting near the limit with rapid velocity then it makes sense to have backups and replace the disk.
I wouldn’t even let me run the long test so I am scrambling for options ideally before the LVM array degrades and if nothing else before the array dies completely. But I am not sure who to buy refubs from if PCLiquations doesn’t get back to me on them and ships them at a reasonable shipping fee for ~$20 devices.
Microcenter doesn’t even have any 7200RPM refub drives in stock even…
Your screen shot shows uncorrectable sector count : 0 which looks fine. Can you run the command line tool badblocks ? By default that will use non destructive options, so you can run (from the top of my head) : badblocks -v /dev/sda for example on the sda disk. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/badblocks.8.html
Thank you very much, I ran the tool and it gave me Pass completed, 9 bad blocks found. (9/0/0 errors) It’s updated SMART now says OK, 16 Bad Sectors and it’s detailed output is as follows…
That’s nice ! I do not know enough about hard disks and smartmontools to say whether this means you can continue the disk without worrying. I like smartmontools for work to tell me when a disk is about to need replacement but I’ve always found interpreting smartmontools numbers too difficult to grasp. Hopefully someone else can give you more hints. And making a habit of making backups is something which has become a second nature for me. I am still amazed about learning how many non tech people never make backups of their phones and computers.
I am very glad to see and no worries, thanks for bringing this to my attention so I was able to provide this additional information in case somebody can more possibly inform me if this something to continue worrying about or not.
As for data backup, this array is to holds them from my cloud Backup VM and anything else that is too large for me keep on my 60GB SSD for proper backing up to my external USB HDD for my personal data. So the “bulky” data are backed up at least twice (Backup VM and the HDD array) WHILE the REALLY important stuffs (like updateish password manager data and such) are backed up to the external in addition to the HDD array (personal data doesn’t goes to the Cloud Backup VM).
Reallocation count went up from the first screenshot, that thing’s dying.
Thanks you for the confirmation on that, well as soon as PCLiqulidations hopefully get back to me to the inquiry I sent. I might be able to get one of their refurbs. Hopefully before it actually does dies. But I sent them the email so I can confirm they can indeed do somethign for me and what they charge for shipping.
ServerMonkey for example was out of their minds for charging $14.95 shipping on a $20 2.5" disk. Since they charge shipping by the flipping LB, not by the actual item’s weight.
I recommend copying all files to another location as soon as possible if you haven’t already. Then you can use the HDD for non important data until it dies I guess
