Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:55:05 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA? Message-ID: <EA8AFE7A-BE51-42EE-8C94-E5F09D7698FC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20091118014634.S65262@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20091116231341.40E3F10656B0@hub.freebsd.org> <20091118014634.S65262@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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Hi-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Ian Smith wrote: [ ... ] > For instance, I've got two Fujitsu 5400rpm 2.5" drives in two laptops, > one MHV2040AH with near 19,000 hours on it, and a much newer > MHV2120AH, > 40 and 120GB respectively. Nice quiet low-power laptop drives, fwiw. > > Both show as (more recently) being in the smartctl database, and both > show _exactly_ the same values for this one: > > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 024 Pre-fail > Always - 8589934592000 > > Now if that were a number of 512-byte sectors, it'd be 4096000 GB! :) > but both drives are 100% ok, as the VALUE / WORST figures show. I wouldn't conclude that the drives were 100% OK from that line, although they *might* be; I'd conclude that the drives aren't implementing this SMART field correctly in their firmware. Are you using the latest version of smartctl-- updates to that can sometimes better interpret vendor-specific odditities. Regards, -- -Chuck
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