[BlueOnyx:13739] Re: old raq550 question

[Michael Stauber]

Hi,

Device Model:     	ST380021A
Power_On_Hours: 	81257
Power_Cycle_Count: 	  135

Yikes! They built those drives sturdy back then. Your disks have seen
135 power cycles (which is nothing) and 81257 hours of operation. That's
a stunning 9.2 years of spinning and grinding and shuffling bits and bytes.

Usually (in my experience) hardisks wear out after four years and a bit
beyond that point the number of errors on 'em will increase to a point
where it's wise to replace them.

Your drives have more than twice that age.

> Anyone see anything indicating a bad drive?

hda:

Raw_Read_Error_Rate: 	130575369
Seek_Error_Rate: 	434973384
Hardware_ECC_Recovered:	130575369

hdc:

Raw_Read_Error_Rate:	143743403
Seek_Error_Rate:	403284815
Hardware_ECC_Recovered:	143743403

It'd say both are about equally bad. There are no "offline incorrectable
sectors", but the number of other errors as shown above is a matter of
growing concern.

My usual advice would be to replace both disks. But there you'll
immediately have the problem that those LBA24 ATA drives are hard to get
these days. You must use IDE drives which have no more than 137GB at the
most.

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